quiet
Example Sentences
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“Minnesota doesn’t stay quiet for these moments. We kind of protect our own, and really, what we believe in,” she said.
“We don’t want border patrol agents quiet,” he recalled in an October interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Now is not the time for quiet contributions.
In the sudden quiet inside, the sounds grow louder outside.
From Literature
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To test this idea, the researchers combined self-directed internal speech, described as quiet "mumbling," with a specialized working memory system.
From Science Daily
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