silence
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Under Infantino's leadership "there is silence where there should be accountability, distance where there should be openness", they said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
No livestream could have delivered that shiver, or the silence of hundreds of strangers falling still, then gasping, in the same instant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
"It's just radio silence from the airport, apart from literally telling people 'we've got an issue'".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
But Grande does perpetuate a silence, complacency, and enabling by painting genuine concern as gossipy chatter.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
More texts come in, too, from the rest of our family, but I silence my phone.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
She also hosts red carpet interviews at the Oscars - following a tried-and-tested formula of comedic flirting and uncomfortable silences - and runs her own production company.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
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
And I find myself stuck in those silences, with words on the venomous tip of my tongue.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
The researchers selectively silenced neurons associated with doublesex.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
“There was some talk that our defense and goalkeeping weren’t up to par. But I think we’ve silenced a lot of critics,” Cubarsí said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Twice, in the space of barely 120 seconds, Bellingham had silenced some 80,000 home fans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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
Embarrassed silenced followed and then whispers: “Did you ever see such a disgraceful performance?” people said.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
“In the end that sacred project actually tends to produce sectarian narrowness, exclusion, uniformity, silencing, self-censorship, lack of debate, the negative sanctioning of nonconformists, and the debilitation of rigorous thought.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
An evening that had begun as silencing a smiling sextet ended in a sublime effort to open the mind beyond body and music to give peace a chance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
"Every two minutes a mother dies. These visa rejections are silencing those we most need to hear from," she added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 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 squeezed harder, silencing that weak-willed strain inside him.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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