muttered
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She blinked, paused, and then muttered: “In the winter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Then, turning to me, she muttered, “Not according to the internet this week. I’m joking!”
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Some faculty and staff reacted with horror, others voiced increasing fear about the ongoing assault on academic freedom, and some merely muttered in sad resignation to the new reality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025
By 02:00, the last muttered conversations faded away.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
“Vanish? Mayhem?” he muttered, packing the rotten fruit from the dump around his cinder mushrooms.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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