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utter

[uht-er] / ˈʌt ər /




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"What has happened to Helen has caused the community to step back in utter disbelief. We can't believe it, people are horrified by what has happened."

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

But their unrelieved brightness and utter lack of texture have the bland flatness of plastic, and render them lifeless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

To deprive oneself of this film because of Mizrahi’s views would be to deny utter exhilaration.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Mike Williams of Beresford Adams is one of two estate agents trying to sell the holiday homes, and said leaving "perfectly good properties" empty was a "complete and utter waste of money".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Eliza would sit half the day sewing, reading, or writing, and scarcely utter a word either to me or her sister.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Nor could Suki, who utters only cute cat meows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

One wonderfully executed sequence, in which Jonathan’s aunt calmly utters uncomfortable truths to the hypocritical and insensitive diners around her, is shocking and hilarious.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

In it he utters what is now one of cinema's most famous lines.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

"Brilliant," is one word that nearly every single England fan I speak to utters as I call out to them outside the stadium.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025

He utters a line that never fails to make the audience laugh.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

The saying is one of his favorite maxims, but it hasn’t been uttered by any other world leader for centuries.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

The late Peter Douglas, former executive director of the California Coastal Commission, uttered them many years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

It will decide if words uttered on the evening news are something the public shouldn’t have heard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

"It's crazy!" uttered a woman as the crowd beside suddenly burst into enthusiastic applause.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Beatrice uttered a little cry and put her hand to her mouth.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

That left Raman uttering loopy word salads when she wasn’t crying conspiracy between the two.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Lumen has followed up with another comedy skit, including one about a company lawyer who zealously stops Seattleites from uttering the brand’s name.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

But one Wednesday morning last month, I found myself uttering to my wife a sentence that sounded frankly surreal to both of us: “Just to let you know, I’m about to call Trump.”

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

Nearly 300 episodes, which aired during the 1990s and 2000s, showed the hapless, accident-prone brothers uttering their catchphrase "To me, to you" as they caused chaos everywhere they went.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

First the dark was his mother, uttering phrases in French.

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo


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