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silence

[sahy-luhns] / ˈsaɪ ləns /




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Instead of accepting the embrace of the Palace - and the media silence that involves - he happily went rogue, giving comments, sometimes commentary, to various media outlets.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The sacred silence of formal dining rooms is being drowned out by bowling alleys and frozen-margarita machines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Keen to catch the rerelease, she bought tickets with her AMC A-List membership and roped in two friends for a screening that boasted a mixture of laughs, shock, and dead silence.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

“In every life there’s a clock that has to stop,” the last line goes, and then it all halts suddenly, in silence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

But in the end it was Karli, of course, who eventually decided this family moment had gone on quite long enough, and broke the silence.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Gilligan loves silences and uses them in long stretches, allowing — or, perhaps more accurately, demanding — his audience to figure out what’s happening on their own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

She also hosts red carpet interviews at the Oscars - following a tried-and-tested formula of comedic flirting and uncomfortable silences - and runs her own production company.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Mr. Blum’s direction doesn’t allow for enough speaking silences, which might allow the characters’ interior lives to be discerned more clearly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

What’s Next: Denali recently began clinical trials of a treatment that silences the genetic instructions for the Alzheimer’s tau protein.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

Dedd remembers a sudden stillness after Minerva left, different from their usual silences.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Papa Warren’s frustration at being silenced became part of our family lore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Finneas, the brother of pop star Billie Eilish, said artists should "not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Some commenters rushed to Ware’s defense, airing their own frustrations and experiences with people who violate an unwritten but sacrosanct rule among serious filmgoers: Phones need to be silenced and stay off during a movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

When the researchers silenced Menin, that protection disappeared.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

“I protest this mockery!” he roared, in a voice that silenced every whisper.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

These interactions are essential for processes including genetic recombination and gene silencing, and they can also play a role in cancer.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Fed’s blackout period begins Sept. 5, silencing policymakers until the day after the meeting ends.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

“In the end that sacred project actually tends to produce sectarian narrowness, exclusion, uniformity, silencing, self-censorship, lack of debate, the negative sanctioning of nonconformists, and the debilitation of rigorous thought.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

“It is a backlash, a backslide, and it is happening at an unprecedented scale, where ultimately we are silencing women’s voices.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

The Chancellor gave him a dark look, silencing him.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss


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