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But officials have stayed mute about the number of missing people since the twin tremors struck on June 24.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

The justices stayed mute, the majority apparently having lost its nerve to go further.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

To further slash the dialogue, the main protagonist is mute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Experts warn mega IPOs like SpaceX may dampen market returns, mute multiple expansion, and dilute existing AI stock valuations.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

The ceilings of some of the rooms in Montclair bore charred, black circles, in mute testimony to his intrepidity as an exploder.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

“The ruling mutes the noisiest channel of tariff risk, but it does not end the story. It removes the air-raid siren, not the arsenal.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 22, 2026

Hydralazine acts by binding to and blocking ADO, which means it effectively "mutes" that oxygen alarm.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2025

The farmers and miners got to hear the most intoxicating music on Earth from brassy cornet players and driving saxophonists, exotic trombone mutes, squealing trumpets and sultry clarinets.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024

In addition, because these interventions must be opposed not through an election but through litigation in state courts, the forum itself mutes the public voice.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2023

A haze mutes not only the birds and beasts, but people, too.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

And muter than ever, pondering deeply, and secretly trembling in the queerest way, these two outwardly sedate young people returned to the Dower House....

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

In vain:—the song that Sappho gave,   In dying, to the mournful sea, Not muter slept beneath the wave   Than this within my memory.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

With the exception of muter, these readings could have been recovered by conjecture; given the separative interpolation at iii 44, F differs surprisingly little from the other manuscripts.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

It troubled many more than King, but the members of the corps were muter than oysters.

From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard

At xiv 7 it has the probably correct muter for mittar, also found in Bodleianus Canon. lat.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

Particularly in these times, France wants her soldiers mute and professional, and the mutest and most professional is Maurice Gamelin.

From Time Magazine Archive

And himselfe, not I Inclin'd to this intelligence, pronounce The Beggery of his change: but 'tis your Graces That from my mutest Conscience, to my tongue, Charmes this report out Imo.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

Not I, Inclin'd to this intelligence, pronounce The beggary of his change; but 'tis your graces That from my mutest conscience to my tongue Charms this report out.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

The flying meteors backward glance On thee to gaze, And bright auroras softly dance In mutest praise; And, to and fro, With motion slow Wave the lamps whence colors flow.

From The Arctic Queen by Unknown

On these occasions my friend would listen to me with the mutest attention.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

Recognizable by a subtle sparkly strip hidden inside a collar or on an aglet at the end of a drawstring cord, Cucinelli’s luxury clothing brand employs a muted palette of tans and grays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Growth is likely to remain subdued, as higher oil prices and continued political uncertainty keep investment activity muted, said ING economists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Those who adore Kurosawa’s unsettling earlier films may be thrown off by his new movie’s relatively muted approach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

While this push to redirect the country’s scientific research has incited alarm, reactions to interventions in the historical humanities have been more muted.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

This foreboding, this muted dread, was what she had sensed around her.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

US oil giants reported lower earnings Friday with accounting effects muting the benefits of the Middle East oil shock, as ExxonMobil's CEO cautioned that crude prices could still increase.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

The limited age range for super catch-up contributions may be muting the benefit, according to Miklos Ringbauer, founder and principal of MiklosCPA, an accounting and tax-strategy firm.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

To make it a full month without buying, Piper suggests muting and unfollowing anything that encourages spending, like marketing emails or Instagram accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

The walls of these rooms accomplish a kind of muting of her aura, a place where veneration feels austere or regimented by bureaucracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025

Not a hush, not a muting of the noise, but utter, almost violent silence.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover