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silence

[sahy-luhns] / ˈsaɪ ləns /




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Ieuan Horgan says his music lessons had to be taught in silence.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

In an editorial, Le Monde said the French authorities were slow to react on Fedorova's case, adding the expulsion order was not meant to silence her.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

She spent the next few hours calling every number and email she had from the exchange but got radio silence.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

I’m not saying you need to like your boss, but assigning her silence any kind of meaning is harming your sanity and happiness.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

I let that request hang in the air, and I know that my silence becomes a kind of answer in itself.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Mr. Blum’s direction doesn’t allow for enough speaking silences, which might allow the characters’ interior lives to be discerned more clearly.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 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

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

The important parts exist in the silences between the words.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

The researchers selectively silenced neurons associated with doublesex.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

Several rescuers run to the road and signal for engines to be shut off, cranes to stop and drills to be silenced.

From BBC Jun. 29, 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

Embarrassed silenced followed and then whispers: “Did you ever see such a disgraceful performance?” people said.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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

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

The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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