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
Acting secretly and with a strong man's discretion, no bruit of this odd conversion had been made public, no whisper of it heard in the camp of the Revolutionaries.
From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Sir Max Pemberton
Thus far had I won when I heard a little bruit behind me, and looking up, as I guessed, I saw Jack, over my shoulder.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015
Throkmorton, writing to the privy council that this king was looked for shortly at Orleans, adds that all bruits of trouble by him were clean appeased, which caused great marvel.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird
If any man shall revive a quarrel by any scandalous bruits or writings, contrary to former proclamation published by his Majesty in that behalf.
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
She immediately bruits it abroad, attracting all the chickens on the farm, and then such another noise, pecking, grabbing and clucking ensues, until the choice bit is torn to shreds.
From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
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 Sir Walter Scott
Argentina’s government has bruited giving AI agents “person” status so they can operate businesses and engage in contracts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
McClellan's delays coincided with a bruiting of the news at Washington that foreign Powers were about to offer mediation.
From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams
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 H. Bencraft Joly
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