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Recent Examples of shush
Sheppard immediately popped up from his scoring catch and shushed the Knights students, whose jeers were well within earshot.
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Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2024
Soothing may involve shushing your child, patting their back, offering a pacifier, or using white noise, says Marisa Rodriguez, newborn care specialists, and founder and CEO of Luxe Baby Custom Newborn Care.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 17 Sep. 2024
When gymnasts tried to cut the silence by cheering on their competitors during the beam final, the crowd shushed loudly.
—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
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Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2024
Soothing may involve shushing your child, patting their back, offering a pacifier, or using white noise, says Marisa Rodriguez, newborn care specialists, and founder and CEO of Luxe Baby Custom Newborn Care.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 17 Sep. 2024
When gymnasts tried to cut the silence by cheering on their competitors during the beam final, the crowd shushed loudly.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shush
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Willis quickly used that notoriety to claim the bans were part of a grand conspiracy to silence truth tellers like him from informing people about what was really happening in the world.David Gilbert, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
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Grantees with innocent-sounding names like Good Information Inc. and Free Press seek mostly to silence other political and policy ideas.Scott Walter, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 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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Setting boundaries and expectations If seeing all the happy, romantic holiday posts feels too difficult, taking a break from social media or muting certain accounts may help, Abrams said.Kristen Rogers, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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Trading profits, particularly in energy, have been muted across the industry as an extended period of volatility following the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has begun to subside.Bloomberg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
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This combination of quality reporting and fulsome data analysis can guide an investor away from all the noisy, contrived optimism to quiet, accurate realism.John S. Tobey, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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But, if successful, the game plan would go a long way toward both quieting critics who argue Amazon is playing catch-up in the AI wars, while also future-proofing the company’s standing as one of the world’s most powerful and influential technology corporations for decades to come.Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
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In 2021, Prime, Reddy and one of Prime’s doctors agreed to pay $37.5 million to settle allegations that Prime paid the doctor kickbacks for patient referrals, among other allegations.Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 17 Dec. 2024
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In recent years, programs such as grants to settle in Tuscan villages, and Mediterranean islands that sell homes for less than the price of a cup of coffee, have presented tempting opportunities for aspiring expats.Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 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 25 Dec. 2024.
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