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silent

[sahy-luhnt] / ˈsaɪ lənt /




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One purported option involved taking a $12 million payment to stay publicly silent about the split.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Are you a silent assassin, a strategic mastermind or an agent of chaos?

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Current methods, including risk scores such as SCORE2, identified only a small proportion of people who already had silent atherosclerosis.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Another silent wealth killer: keeping too much cash sitting in checking or savings accounts that pay little or no interest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Pos-i-lute.ly.” Anna May’s voice was quite deep, but the tone was light, frivolous, different from what I’d imagined when I’d seen her on the silent screen.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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