mute
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The company said it would set a daily two-hour time limit, hide the number of likes that a post receives, remove autoplay on videos, mute push notifications during school hours, and ban extreme make-up filters.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
His mute misadventures are the purest expression of animation’s freedom to do and draw anything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
But officials have stayed mute about the number of missing people since the twin tremors struck on June 24.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
"From that day on that little voice telling me to stay in bed was put on mute."
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Until now her life had been one of mute, futile fury.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
There is a “school mode” that mutes notifications during school hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Warsh also noted that constant guidance from the Fed mutes useful information from private markets that are often better at assessing prevailing economic conditions.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
Hydralazine acts by binding to and blocking ADO, which means it effectively "mutes" that oxygen alarm.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2025
The farmers and miners got to hear the most intoxicating music on Earth from brassy cornet players and driving saxophonists, exotic trombone mutes, squealing trumpets and sultry clarinets.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
A haze mutes not only the birds and beasts, but people, too.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
It troubled many more than King, but the members of the corps were muter than oysters.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
And muter than ever, pondering deeply, and secretly trembling in the queerest way, these two outwardly sedate young people returned to the Dower House....
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
In vain:—the song that Sappho gave, In dying, to the mournful sea, Not muter slept beneath the wave Than this within my memory.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
Not to be slain himself, see Gellius handle his uncle's Lady; no Harpocrates muter, his uncle is hush'd.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
At xiv 7 it has the probably correct muter for mittar, also found in Bodleianus Canon. lat.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
Particularly in these times, France wants her soldiers mute and professional, and the mutest and most professional is Maurice Gamelin.
From Time Magazine Archive
On these occasions my friend would listen to me with the mutest attention.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
I name for instance, just to hover a little, silent Vanderpool, the mutest presence at the Upham board, and quite with no sense of the invidious in so doing.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James
The flying meteors backward glance On thee to gaze, And bright auroras softly dance In mutest praise; And, to and fro, With motion slow Wave the lamps whence colors flow.
From The Arctic Queen by Unknown
And himselfe, not I Inclin'd to this intelligence, pronounce The Beggery of his change: but 'tis your Graces That from my mutest Conscience, to my tongue, Charmes this report out Imo.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
The apps will also be blocked by default from midnight to 6 a.m., and notifications will be muted by default from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Meanwhile, global markets have had a muted response to the announcement.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Sliding shares of chip makers and signs of intensifying geopolitical tension weighed on major stock indexes Monday, delivering a muted start to a jam-packed week for markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The good news is inflation since the war in Iran erupted has actually been more muted than economists initially feared.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Kainene’s house was repainted a muted green; the bougainvillea that had wreathed it was cut down.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Strout’s narrative also flashes forward at times, muting suspense, revealing more than we might wish.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
US oil giants reported lower earnings Friday with accounting effects muting the benefits of the Middle East oil shock, as ExxonMobil's CEO cautioned that crude prices could still increase.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
The limited age range for super catch-up contributions may be muting the benefit, according to Miklos Ringbauer, founder and principal of MiklosCPA, an accounting and tax-strategy firm.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026
To make it a full month without buying, Piper suggests muting and unfollowing anything that encourages spending, like marketing emails or Instagram accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Brown electric lines hung low in the smoky air, and a thin layer of ash covered everything like snow, muting sound as well as color.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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