mute
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Can you mute parents' WhatsApp groups and just focus on official school emails?
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
His mute misadventures are the purest expression of animation’s freedom to do and draw anything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
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 Italian comedian plays Diego’s mute manservant, Bernardo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Singer recalled that, although he had been deaf since he was an infant, he had not always been a real mute.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
There is a “school mode” that mutes notifications during school hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“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
Belén mutes the TV, and we all stare at each other, confused.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
At xiv 7 it has the probably correct muter for mittar, also found in Bodleianus Canon. lat.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
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 Mark Bear Akrigg
Sidorov, turning to the French, winked, and began to jabber meaningless sounds very fast: "Kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, Kaska," he said, trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It troubled many more than King, but the members of the corps were muter than oysters.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
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 William Shakespeare
On these occasions my friend would listen to me with the mutest attention.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
I name for instance, just to hover a little, silent Vanderpool, the mutest presence at the Upham board, and quite with no sense of the invidious in so doing.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James
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
Labor costs are muted and have not been a big contributor to rising prices since the pandemic.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
New investment in homes to rent by landlords was "still muted as a result of higher costs and more regulation", Zoopla said.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
She estimates the impact will grow in the third quarter, but remain muted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
European indexes were largely unmoved in muted early trade, with the Stoxx 600 nudged upward and media and healthcare stocks gaining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Her purse fell out of her hands and hit the floor with a muted clank as she put her arms around Pita.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Strout’s narrative also flashes forward at times, muting suspense, revealing more than we might wish.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
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
Teen accounts have also been restricted to include direct messaging only with people they follow or are already connected to and automatic muting during nighttime hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
Brown electric lines hung low in the smoky air, and a thin layer of ash covered everything like snow, muting sound as well as color.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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