silence
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Flags will be flown at half-mast, while his portrait will be displayed, candles lit and moments of silence held at professional events.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Will he break the cone of silence and tell us what he thinks?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
At a recent legislative debate in Seoul, he called for a moment of silence for South Korean individual investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The government's announcement that the environmental certificate had been cleared ended a decade-long silence about the project.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
It was getting harder to believe that there might be any good news behind the silence.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
What’s Next: Denali recently began clinical trials of a treatment that silences the genetic instructions for the Alzheimer’s tau protein.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
It suggests that no other irreversible power to immunize lurks in the Constitution’s silences.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
Jonsson’s silences always seem to say so much and in “Wasteman” he capitalizes on his reserved demeanor and smaller frame to create a character who is much less frightening than those around him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
In subsequent hours-long interviews after Motin's arrest, Nicholson said the Solong captain still couldn't account for the silences or lack of response to the unfolding disaster.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026
Between the blazing white banks of the town stores, among the tree silences, a black tide flowed.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
When they temporarily silenced cells in this region in mice, animals modeling neuropathic pain became less sensitive to touch and heat compared with healthy mice.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
He is speaking to us trackside at Crystal Palace, its grandstands and shuttered scoreboard almost silenced and yearning to return to their former glory.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
"But in Iran, they are more easily silenced."
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
What sets Houdon’s Franklin apart from the other two is that in those depictions the polymath seems silenced and solitary, compared with Houdon’s convivial treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Bull crowed with delight, a self-indulgent but euphoric eruption that silenced his wife’s catcalls for the moment.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
An evening that had begun as silencing a smiling sextet ended in a sublime effort to open the mind beyond body and music to give peace a chance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Eliminating the host nation and silencing tens of thousands of American fans wasn’t enough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Mahrang warned that enforced disappearances fuelled more resistance, rather than silencing it.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
"Every two minutes a mother dies. These visa rejections are silencing those we most need to hear from," she added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
But briefly, silencing ourselves so we didn’t miss anything.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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