murmur
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In 2018, during another hospital visit, doctors detected a heart murmur.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2025
He speaks with the same measured warmth as ever — that deep, lilting rumble that can shift from conspiratorial murmur to amused growl in a heartbeat — but he sometimes loses a name mid-thought.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025
It’s richer, more confident, the kind of topping that makes you stop mid-bite and murmur, half to yourself, why is this so good?
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025
My son and my husband each murmur happy greetings in response, assuming I was talking to them—and Thomas, ever the diplomat, says nothing to correct the record.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
“I live in my children,” and he was silent, and then I heard him murmur my name and bent down.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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