muttered
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Metallica’s always been more existential than topical, but haven’t we all scrolled our feeds recently and muttered - “Darkness imprisoning me / All that I see, absolute horror.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Then, turning to me, she muttered, “Not according to the internet this week. I’m joking!”
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
“After overhearing a passionate ideological dispute around her own kitchen table between the future Nobel laureate for literature and his radical friends from the University of Chicago, she muttered: ‘Smart, smart, smart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
By 02:00, the last muttered conversations faded away.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
“Dunno how anything can be urgent here,” he muttered.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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