bruit

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

And they would answer him as they thought good, so by this doing the King heard the common bruit of himself.

From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid

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

She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015

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

Meanwhile there were bruits of great doings in the north of Lincolnshire.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley

Ans.—No, it iz an alterative; it alters dollars into pence, and men into bruits.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

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

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

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 Rupert Hughes

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