bruit (about)

as in to rumor
to make (as a piece of information) the subject of common talk without any authority or confirmation of accuracy please don't bruit accusations about without confirming them first

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  • Yet the private life of the royal couple was rumored to be a far from felicitous one, with many stories of infidelities trickling out before and after the princess was killed in a car crash in 1982 at the age of fifty-two.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025
  • These Siri features were rumored to have been pushed to 2026 first and then to 2027.
    Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • As the rumor mill has gone into overdrive, the town has whispered that Peter Safran – the co-chairman of WB’s DC Films with James Gunn – could possibly inherit control of all of Warner Bros. if things continue to go south.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Traders are whispering that Powell could announce an end to the Fed’s balance sheet runoff program, known as quantitative tightening, which could boost the bitcoin price, crypto and stock markets.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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  • Work ethic isn’t tested when things are easy, it’s revealed in the face of adversity.
    Glenn Llopis, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • What is first suspected to be bullying or some kind of fight gone wrong is quickly revealed to be an entirely new horror.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Bruit (about).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bruit%20%28about%29. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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