bruit

Exceptions: Your doctor hears a swishing sound, called a bruit, with a stethoscope, or you have had a stroke or mini-stroke.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2009

Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot.

From Time Magazine Archive

And in the bruit of a large city, if one voice cries out above the turmoil, will not a babel of shouts rise from competitors ?

From Time Magazine Archive

She was never tempted to tell news or bruit from one student to another what was no concern of hers.

From Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by R. G. Vosburgh

I was quite angry with her, and could not avoid expressing my concern, first, at paying any attention to an anonymous letter, and secondly, at being so very imprudent as to bruit forth its contents.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015

But for such evil bruits Mr. Touchwood cared not, even if he happened to hear of them, which was very doubtful.

From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott

Meanwhile there were bruits of great doings in the north of Lincolnshire.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley

Ans.—No, it iz an alterative; it alters dollars into pence, and men into bruits.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

Faults are descried and magnified; no sympathy is felt for the sufferer, but a vulgar curiosity bruits the ill-natured rumor, and many hearts must hence bleed in their unseen solitude.

From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

The average American probably hears peace talks being constantly bruited and thinks everything is under control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

FDA officials also have bruited the possibility of requiring vaccine manufacturers to modify their shots by this fall to target the omicron variant.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2022

Stars and starlets sought his services, 1950s scandal sheets bruited his name and Mike Wallace grilled him on TV.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2021

Then to the teased and bruited main business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2016

This leaves plenty of leeway for judgment, depending on whether the writer wishes to emphasize the continuing truth of some idea that was bruited in the past.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Those who are bruiting a new war are few in number though they may have great money power behind them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The early bruiting of Lloyd Bentsen's name looked like a textbook case of strategic leaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wasn’t all that surprised he knew our code name the way people were bruiting it about.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

For her to wake up to it only now and run bruiting the stale information would be a ridiculous nuisance—a newsgirl howling yesterday's extra to to-day's busy crowd.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

Soon after this the Oscar Wilde case was bruiting about.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis