mutter
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They grads are also primed to boo any speakers who so much as mutter the words “artificial intelligence.”
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
The locals in their working-class part of the city of Sahiwal mutter that Zeba is living under a curse after her previous suitors died in mysterious circumstances.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
When Musk makes the same prediction, analysts roll their eyes and mutter about missed timelines.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026
You’ll watch Rex Ryan pick apart your decisions and mutter to yourself: Rex Ryan?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
But it was a mutter, low in her throat.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The man and woman walk by me as the man mutters, “You people are crazy” and other words people don’t usually say on the streets of Pella.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2025
“He better be working out because I’m just horrified about that fight — just horrified,” Kind mutters while shaking his head and picking at a small plate of bananas and peanut butter.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025
“Dude, let’s just go,” mutters a guy to his friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Some are goofily anachronistic, as when Johnson mutters a few times about pulling himself up by his bootstraps like everyone else.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2024
"Latin," he mutters, and hands it to the innkeeper.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
Francisco de Quevedo drank in long-gone watering holes where Luis de Góngora muttered his verse.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
"Hoodlums," muttered 80-year-old village chief Joseph Batangouna as he walked past a group of young people sitting by the side of road in Mayitoukou, Congo-Brazzaville.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 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
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
I muttered as O’Reilly stepped back into the center of the platform to begin his lecture on ’70s fashion.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Kail hustles through the emotional beats like a tour guide muttering, “You know what happened here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
You can almost imagine Palace officials rolling their eyes and muttering, "Nightmare".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
If this conflict is sustained, economists are muttering about growth being perhaps just half of the 1.1% the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted for this year - or even less.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
Outside the Capitol, I kept walking and muttering to myself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
The unlucky pair stumbled off through the nighttime woodland, gesticulating and muttering together, weaving a fabric of lies that they hoped would satisfy Cluny the Scourge.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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