silence
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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
The messages claimed the "news media" had "confirmed" the death, and were followed by the national anthem and 16 minutes of silence on DAB+, while AM listeners heard back-up music.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
But Grande does perpetuate a silence, complacency, and enabling by painting genuine concern as gossipy chatter.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Miller’s former father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno, broke his long silence over the matter.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
An awkward silence fell between us, which was strange.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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
It can hold the spectrum of emotions evoked in therapy, as well as the silences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
It’s led to some awkward silences and classic prank calls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
An argument breaks out until one tribute silences the others.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
The researchers selectively silenced neurons associated with doublesex.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
There was the Jude Bellingham game, when his two goals for England silenced 80,000 fans in the Estadio Azteca.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
He is speaking to us trackside at Crystal Palace, its grandstands and shuttered scoreboard almost silenced and yearning to return to their former glory.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
"But in Iran, they are more easily silenced."
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
The King cried, “Ho and abide I” The heralds and kings- at-arms came down the lists, and Meliagrance was silenced.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Eliminating the host nation and silencing tens of thousands of American fans wasn’t enough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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
I reach down to feel the flintlock pistol still in my belt, but silencing the parrot will do no good.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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