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mutter

verb as in grumble, mumble

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The robot muttered some animal words to her son and then said to the children, “If a goose ever visits this farm and presents you with a feather, you will know that I am home.”

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The other day an Eastern European woman working at the grocery store heard I was 37, shook her head, and muttered “What do you people eat in this country?”

When Vinicius muttered "I'm going to leave this team" as he was replaced in Sunday's El Clasico win, it wasn't a new thought.

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As hard as she tried to paint Mamdani’s proposals as unreasonable, she often muttered “right” under her breath as he answered her questions, serving to unintentionally bolster his talking points.

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There was still some muttering and a few can-you-believe-I-just-did-that stares at her coaches, but she remained in charge.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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