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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
Verb
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Students are often instructed to silence their phones and remain as quiet as possible.Adam Coughran, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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The way to respond to this is to not - to allow your - to not allow anyone to silence your voice.CBS News, CBS News, 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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But acting as if those ways are to be hushed is the way of the old world.Danyel Smith, Essence, 16 Oct. 2024
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Spencer Platt | Getty Images S&P 500 futures are muted Thursday night after the broad index ended a three-day negative streak.Alex Harring, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
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Their pitching was exceptional, led by Skubal, keyed a strong net K/BB profile and muting fly ball authority better than any other AL club.Tony Blengino, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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That may quiet a drama that keeps weighing on the minds of investors.Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024
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Advertisement From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
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Strong credit helped, while those companies with lesser credit often settled for buildings in suboptimal locations.David Marino, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Marlee Matlin is settling into her newest role — grandma!Hannah Sacks, People.com, 30 Oct. 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 7 Nov. 2024.
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