silence

As the light slowly faded in Tarragona, on the Mediterranean coast, a crowd looked on in almost reverent silence as the orange, late-afternoon glow gave way to amost complete darkness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

No livestream could have delivered that shiver, or the silence of hundreds of strangers falling still, then gasping, in the same instant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

"The studio was often church-like and I would sit in silence, waiting for your ideas to explode out of your keyboard or your guitar and then I would run with them," she wrote.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

But Grande does perpetuate a silence, complacency, and enabling by painting genuine concern as gossipy chatter.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

There’s a long silence while I search again for the words I can never seem to find.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

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

It can hold the spectrum of emotions evoked in therapy, as well as the silences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

The acoustics in the Assembly Room were so poor that silences there had a heavy hum of their own.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

The researchers selectively silenced neurons associated with doublesex.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

Twice, in the space of barely 120 seconds, Bellingham had silenced some 80,000 home fans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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

He lifted his hand to wave and call, but something in the minister’s face silenced him.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

“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

“It is a backlash, a backslide, and it is happening at an unprecedented scale, where ultimately we are silencing women’s voices.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

While he did not have those same doubts internally, a statement Slam triumph away from the French Open felt crucial to silencing the critics.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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

“Where is my tea?” came a shout from the top of the stairs, the strident voice silencing the singing and ending Ophie’s happy reverie.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland