silence

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

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

"This question is for him. I can answer only with my silence," he said, when asked why the striker was not included.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Among them are Cruz, who broke his silence in a statement to the Tribune, as well as U.S.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

In the silence that followed, Mary’s labored breathing seemed especially loud.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

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

After all these years, I could interpret his various silences.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

The researchers selectively silenced neurons associated with doublesex.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 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

"When punishment fails to reflect the lifelong harm inflicted, justice becomes meaningless and survivors like me are left silenced, dismissed and profoundly failed by the very system meant to protect us," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

"He also has arms and legs. Feet and hands. And in the same way you don't want him silenced, you also don't want him invisible, do you?"

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

“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

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

"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

I bade Horatio memorize every detail of my plan, silencing his doubts and urging his faith instead.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein