bruit
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Exceptions: Your doctor hears a swishing sound, called a bruit, with a stethoscope, or you have had a stroke or mini-stroke.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2009
And in the bruit of a large city, if one voice cries out above the turmoil, will not a babel of shouts rise from competitors ?
From Time Magazine Archive
Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot.
From Time Magazine Archive
His soul has hands; above the bruit They lift a song-bird quivering.
From Path Flower and Other Verses by Dargan, Olive Tilford
Now, the bruit shrewdly goeth, that that member does make common cause with his Grace.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John
She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015
Ans.—No, it iz an alterative; it alters dollars into pence, and men into bruits.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
"De tous les bruits du monde celui de la musique est le plus desagreable!" was my ever-recurring thought.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Faults are descried and magnified; no sympathy is felt for the sufferer, but a vulgar curiosity bruits the ill-natured rumor, and many hearts must hence bleed in their unseen solitude.
From The Young Maiden by Muzzey, A. B. (Artemas Bowers)
But for such evil bruits Mr. Touchwood cared not, even if he happened to hear of them, which was very doubtful.
From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir
The average American probably hears peace talks being constantly bruited and thinks everything is under control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
On the contrary, “Certified Lover Boy” had been bruited for nearly a year.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
FDA officials also have bruited the possibility of requiring vaccine manufacturers to modify their shots by this fall to target the omicron variant.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2022
Stars and starlets sought his services, 1950s scandal sheets bruited his name and Mike Wallace grilled him on TV.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2021
This leaves plenty of leeway for judgment, depending on whether the writer wishes to emphasize the continuing truth of some idea that was bruited in the past.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Those who are bruiting a new war are few in number though they may have great money power behind them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The early bruiting of Lloyd Bentsen's name looked like a textbook case of strategic leaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wasn’t all that surprised he knew our code name the way people were bruiting it about.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
For her to wake up to it only now and run bruiting the stale information would be a ridiculous nuisance—a newsgirl howling yesterday's extra to to-day's busy crowd.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
But it's all our old lady's fault for bruiting it about!
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
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