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Recent Examples of shush
When gymnasts tried to cut the silence by cheering on their competitors during the beam final, the crowd shushed loudly.
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Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
No music played on the building’s speakers, and the crowd of 10,000 fell almost completely silent, to the extent that when coaches and teammates tried to cheer the gymnasts on during their routines, the crowed shushed them.
—Alice Park / Paris, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
And to add injury to insult, Ionescu shushed the crowd after draining a trey in the final seconds of garbage time.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
Maxwell waved his hands, shushing his musicians and teasingly zeroed in on the audience member.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 27 July 2024
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Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
No music played on the building’s speakers, and the crowd of 10,000 fell almost completely silent, to the extent that when coaches and teammates tried to cheer the gymnasts on during their routines, the crowed shushed them.
—Alice Park / Paris, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
And to add injury to insult, Ionescu shushed the crowd after draining a trey in the final seconds of garbage time.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
Maxwell waved his hands, shushing his musicians and teasingly zeroed in on the audience member.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 27 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shush
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Prosecutors with the Southern District of New York opposed Combs’ motion, claiming not only was the request broad and overreaching, but would potentially silence accusers who were not part of the criminal case.Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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Sean Diddy Combs and his legal team have moved to silence witnesses off the stand.DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Matthews’ voice swung from gravelly to hushed in a simple, affecting tribute.Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
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Throughout the first act, the auditorium was hushed.Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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Green Book premieres at the same festival, but its message about looking past each other’s differences feels less pressing in a world where Donald Trump has not just nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, and response to the interracial buddy dramedy is muted.Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
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Grand Prismatic Spring, the third largest hot spring in the world and one of Yellowstone's top attractions, looked particularly magical as the overcast skies muted its rainbow colors and heavy steam shrouded the site.Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
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The unconscious mind lingers on the problem even after people have used strategies to quiet the fear by pushing it from awareness.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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As chief executive of a superpower, Harris would also be able to quiet lingering doubts that women are equipped to make decisions of war and peace.Linda Robinson, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2024
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Lucius Elliot, head of contemporary marquee auctions, said in the period between securing consignments for the November auctions and actually selling them this week, the market had settled.Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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For the coda, Shostakovich and Mravinsky apparently settled on a metronome marking of eighth note = 184 or 188.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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In order to save time, space, or money, audio companies will often take the design of a larger, more expensive device and dumb it down slightly to make a product that's more accessible, and probably better for most of us.Parker Hall, WIRED, 6 May 2021
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To dumb it down, think about how action figures of the past had limited points of articulation.Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Shush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shush. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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