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
"From that day on that little voice telling me to stay in bed was put on mute."
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The Italian comedian plays Diego’s mute manservant, Bernardo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
To further slash the dialogue, the main protagonist is mute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Saint Sarah, uncharacteristically mute, smiles half her wattage and weaves an arm through mine.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
There is a “school mode” that mutes notifications during school hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“The ruling mutes the noisiest channel of tariff risk, but it does not end the story. It removes the air-raid siren, not the arsenal.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 22, 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
I raise my hand and ask, “Can we play with mutes today?”
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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
Sidorov, turning to the French, winked, and began to jabber meaningless sounds very fast: "Kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, Kaska," he said, trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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
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
It troubled many more than King, but the members of the corps were muter than oysters.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
Particularly in these times, France wants her soldiers mute and professional, and the mutest and most professional is Maurice Gamelin.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
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 dollar rose but the currency’s rise has been relatively muted in response to Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s speech on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
David Rooney at The Hollywood Reporter, external is slightly more positive, noting that the film is "muted but never dull" and an "appealingly mellow watch".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
—European stock indexes were mixed at the open, as markets continue to move sideways in muted trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
They make a sad noise, like muted church bells.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
Teen accounts have also been restricted to include direct messaging only with people they follow or are already connected to and automatic muting during nighttime hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
The shabby walls and worn stones seemed to shimmer as if a translucent silk veil covered them, muting any flaws and transforming the house into a dwelling of luminous light and delicate shadows.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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