silence
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The new ones are thick enough to block the bustling noise of surrounding streets, offering silence in units that's uncharacteristic of New York City apartments.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
"We want the government to hear us, not silence us," said student K.M.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Tan’s suit claims the department “sought to weaken, silence, and break apart the very partnership that threatened to expose its wrongdoing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
This silence reveals a deeper contradiction at the heart of the world’s most popular sport.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
He opened them in silence, then reached over and dropped them into Mary’s lap.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The company recently began clinical trials of a treatment that silences the genetic instructions for the Alzheimer’s tau protein.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
It suggests that no other irreversible power to immunize lurks in the Constitution’s silences.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
He has also been met with blank stares and awkward silences, and once got turned down by a high-school band.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
In subsequent hours-long interviews after Motin's arrest, Nicholson said the Solong captain still couldn't account for the silences or lack of response to the unfolding disaster.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026
In the sound of the drums I understood a vast pervading doom; but in the expectant silences between, my own disaster loomed larger, more consequent and more hurtful.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
The researchers selectively silenced neurons associated with doublesex.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
There was the Jude Bellingham game, when his two goals for England silenced 80,000 fans in the Estadio Azteca.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Several rescuers run to the road and signal for engines to be shut off, cranes to stop and drills to be silenced.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
"But in Iran, they are more easily silenced."
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
The flag was whipping in the wind, and I could hear the white noise of traffic in the distance, but it was otherwise quiet, the cicadas and crickets silenced by the cold.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
Eliminating the host nation and silencing tens of thousands of American fans wasn’t enough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“It is a backlash, a backslide, and it is happening at an unprecedented scale, where ultimately we are silencing women’s voices.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
By systematically silencing genes, the scientists observed which ones had the greatest impact on slowing or stopping cancer cell growth.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 2026
He turned away after silencing the taunts, cupping his ear to The Kop, who were stunned into silence after his sixth Premier League goal versus Liverpool.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026
He made a visible effort to master his temper by going to the stove and silencing the coffeepot.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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