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

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

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

An hour gone, we being in the church, when we heard that mighty bruit from the City, was Queen Mary proclaimed in Cheapside by the Council.

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

On the other hand, no trumpet is thought loud enough to bruit about a suspicion that Man may be a creature of yet remoter date.

From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon

She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015

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

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

"De tous les bruits du monde celui de la musique est le plus desagreable!" was my ever-recurring thought.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Throkmorton, writing to the privy council that this king was looked for shortly at Orleans, adds that all bruits of trouble by him were clean appeased, which caused great marvel.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Argentina’s government has bruited giving AI agents “person” status so they can operate businesses and engage in contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

On the contrary, “Certified Lover Boy” had been bruited for nearly a year.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The fool can never shine in the world by bruiting about his own praise.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

Soon after this the Oscar Wilde case was bruiting about.

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