silence
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Once the immune threat has passed, other proteins modify BCL6 so that it can no longer silence those genes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
So we decided to break our silence to say publicly that we don’t want the death penalty imposed in the case involving our daughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
I kept my silence during the family conference calls, except for telling his brother what my financial adviser told me.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
"No means, no silence," read one cardboard sign outside the Turgot high school.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Me and Tansy rode better than a mile in silence.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Instead her loss was described as a "late miscarriage", which she said "silences you further".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
But when the Amalfi’s V8 silences itself, it leaves a pretty big hole in the moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
As children, we sense the edges of these silences without fully grasping them.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 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
Then we had another one of these new, despairing silences.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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When the researchers silenced Menin, that protection disappeared.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed,” Finneas wrote on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed,” Finneas, who is the brother of singer Billie Eilish, said on social media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
He posted Tuesday that "artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed."
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Maybe before the raid, the chill in his eyes would have silenced me.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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Mookie Betts drove a deep fly ball to the warning track, momentarily silencing the crowd, until Mitchell closed his glove around it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Researchers have explored gene silencing approaches using siRNAs, antisense oligonucleotides, and CRISPR.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Fed’s blackout period begins Sept. 5, silencing policymakers until the day after the meeting ends.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The silencing of the press and scapegoating of desperate sailors does not hide Hegseth’s mess.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
He flapped clumsily down among the firs, silencing the bats.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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