- present participle of whisper.
whispering
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"I was sitting at dinner thinking 'what's going on?' Somebody who was helping at the table kept whispering the score to me," says Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
But Espinosa said attendees spent more time whispering about her outfit than talking about her presentation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“I want to tell you what they’re whispering about Michiganders out in Washington, because I’ve heard it myself,” Ocasio-Cortez told the crowd at the Detroit rally.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
“He’s whispering to me, ‘Mom, this is your path.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
“I saw it once in our room,” he leans in, whispering.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Compared to the library whisperings of the 2.5-liter hybrid, the 2.0-liter EcoBoost raises a ruckus at high loads and rpm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
However, there was broad and vociferous support for Baroness Kidron, a film director and digital rights campaigner, who accused ministers of being swayed by the "whisperings of Silicon Valley" asking them to "redefine theft".
From BBC ● May 19, 2025
That’s no different from the way the first season tricked us into obsessing over those mud and hair totems and whisperings about the Yellow King for nothing.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2024
The city is quiet apart from the whisperings of all-night radio phone-ins, forging the insomniacs, the lovelorn and the lost into a fleeting community.
From Reuters ● Feb. 13, 2022
But more important, his whisperings kept her from being totally and hopelessly lonely without Kapu and her wolf pack.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
