silent
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A silent electronic warfare battle is raging in the Russia-Ukraine war as both sides attack and defend communication signals on a massive scale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The music rose and fell, rose and fell as the players became one, followed by an orchestrated hush that served as a silent accent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Current methods, including risk scores such as SCORE2, identified only a small proportion of people who already had silent atherosclerosis.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Narayan told the meeting that the impact of AI might have been under-estimated because of the "silent adoption" of the technology by workers, which did not show up in industry surveys.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Her buckskin jerkin and leggings were scruffy, but her bow and quiver were beautiful, the arrows deftly fletched with owl feathers for silent flight.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Vocabulary lists containing silent
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ant, -ent
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Spelling Practice 2, Unit 8
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"First They Came for the Communists"
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