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Recent Examples of shush
Gert laughed, too, until the two of them were shushing each other quite loudly.
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 3 May 2025
One day at the Scottish Open, a volunteer held up the quiet sign and shushed the crowd as Morikawa prepared to hit from the fairway.
—Brody Miller, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Fathers shushed babbling toddlers as their wives snuck out to change infants’ diapers.
—Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
In his 2023 address, President Joe Biden was repeatedly met with heckles and boos from some Republican lawmakers, leading then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to shush them, according to CNN.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 3 May 2025
One day at the Scottish Open, a volunteer held up the quiet sign and shushed the crowd as Morikawa prepared to hit from the fairway.
—Brody Miller, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Fathers shushed babbling toddlers as their wives snuck out to change infants’ diapers.
—Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
In his 2023 address, President Joe Biden was repeatedly met with heckles and boos from some Republican lawmakers, leading then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to shush them, according to CNN.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shush
Verb
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The majority on the Commissioners Court shouldn’t seek to silence minority voices through a violation of the Voting Rights Act, the letters said.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 June 2025
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To let rhythm carry meaning, to listen closely to silence.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
2 June 2025
Verb
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That 2-1 defeat was a stinger — Tōko Koga’s decisive goal in the 50th minute hushed an otherwise raucous San Diego crowd.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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Young Morrison got a harsh lesson in how things are done in a blue state: Liberal groupthink is gospel, dissenters are heretics who should be hushed.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
28 May 2025
Verb
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That said, any impact the jobs report had on the stock market was muted.—
Paolo Confino,
Fortune,
4 June 2025
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When hatred is this blatant, and the response from institutions and leaders is muted or muddled, something foundational is eroding. Antisemitism has always been a threat, but its resurgence, and frightening acceptance, in mainstream American life is dangerous and disorienting.—
Larry Hogan,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2025
Verb
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The topic of who should be able to play whom has quieted now that the industry has faced all sorts of existential threats the last five years.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2025
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But the 4-2 home victory over CF Montreal Wednesday night was exactly what Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates needed to get out of an eight-game funk and, at least temporarily, quiet the critics.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
29 May 2025
Verb
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Those CBAs also require that should there be a dispute as to whether the league, a club, a union, or a player abided by their obligations under the CBA, such dispute be settled through a confidential arbitration process.—
Chris Deubert,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Here’s what happened next Time to break some concrete Heavily built up and covered in graffiti, modern Athens bears little resemblance to the idyllic location people chose to settle millennia ago.—
Elinda Labropoulou,
CNN Money,
28 May 2025
Verb
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Where conspiracies dumb us down to eventually believe that nothing is actually true?—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2025
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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 11 Jun. 2025.
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