silence
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"His silence gives a lot more agency to these other members, and whenever there's a void, markets will fill it with the commentary from these other monetary policymakers," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 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
Fifteen months later, her death, and what many view as a suspicious silence surrounding it, has become a lightning rod for discontent among Vietnam's youth.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
When pulled off successfully, the power of silence raises the volume on everything else that matters.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
Give me silence and I’ll fill it with any random fluff that pops into my brain and flies out of my mouth.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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His and Lissie's wedding pictures adorned the front pages, police forces and football clubs held minutes' silences and blue ribbons were displayed in his hometown of Wallingford.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Gilligan loves silences and uses them in long stretches, allowing — or, perhaps more accurately, demanding — his audience to figure out what’s happening on their own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The company recently began clinical trials of a treatment that silences the genetic instructions for the Alzheimer’s tau protein.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
It suggests that no other irreversible power to immunize lurks in the Constitution’s silences.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
I was being called on regularly now in the Talmud class, and there were no silences when I read and explained a passage.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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The researchers selectively silenced neurons associated with doublesex.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
An individual try from Immanuel Feyi-Waboso then silenced the passionate home crowd.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“There was some talk that our defense and goalkeeping weren’t up to par. But I think we’ve silenced a lot of critics,” Cubarsí said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
There was the Jude Bellingham game, when his two goals for England silenced 80,000 fans in the Estadio Azteca.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Yet there’s the other part of me that will not be silenced or ignored.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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“In the end that sacred project actually tends to produce sectarian narrowness, exclusion, uniformity, silencing, self-censorship, lack of debate, the negative sanctioning of nonconformists, and the debilitation of rigorous thought.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Junior Caminero doubled in the first inning, and Ryan Vilade followed with a home run on a cutter, silencing a sold-out Dodger Stadium before the game could even heat up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 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
"This constitutes a new and flagrant violation of all international laws and norms, and reflects a continued systematic policy of targeting journalists and silencing the voice of truth," it added.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
“Companera Grau has a point,” Celia begins, silencing a heckler, a cousin of Rogelio’s, with a harsh look.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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