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Recent Examples of shush
After once rising from her seat to scold a man recording the broadcast on his phone to shushing in-studio viewers during an interview with Zohran Mamdani, Whoopi Goldberg just wrote another chapter in her comical relationship with The View's studio audience.
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Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Jan. 2026
That shush in the art dealership was loud.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2025
In the clip, the then-6-year-old can be seen walking with his iPad to the next room and shushing everyone.
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Justin Thomas found himself in the unique position of trying to amp up the crowd in support of his team, while also trying to shush them so that his opponents could have a fair chance of playing.
—Don Riddell, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
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Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Jan. 2026
That shush in the art dealership was loud.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2025
In the clip, the then-6-year-old can be seen walking with his iPad to the next room and shushing everyone.
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Justin Thomas found himself in the unique position of trying to amp up the crowd in support of his team, while also trying to shush them so that his opponents could have a fair chance of playing.
—Don Riddell, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shush
Verb
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Under both regimes, Black voices and ideas are silenced.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Mar. 2026
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It was finally silenced, to cheers from the crowd, but then the main scoreboard and video screen that hangs over the middle of the court went dark.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
29 Mar. 2026
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The keys are satisfying to type on and impressively hushed without feeling mushy.—
Aubrey Jowers,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2026
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What could have been a straightforward suburban critique is instead closer to a rich, deep baroque painting capturing longing, power, and hushed domestic drama.—
Vanity Fair,
Vanity Fair,
26 Mar. 2026
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The findings reveal a lot of variance by sector, and muted total job growth.—
Bob Herman,
STAT,
30 Mar. 2026
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This year’s hard freeze that melted most of our daffodils also took the edge off many of the Bradford pear blooms, muting the usual burst of white flowers across the landscape.—
Markis Hill,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
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Clay Holmes threw 5 2/3 innings, Devin Williams recorded his first save in a Mets uniform, and the Mets limited the Cards to only five hits throughout the entire game, quieting the bats that made a lot of noise in their season-opening series.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
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But an upcoming launch on April 1 — the first time astronauts will ride aboard NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket and Orion capsule — could quiet the program’s critics.—
Kayla Hayempour,
NBC news,
30 Mar. 2026
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The impossibility of his quest began to settle in.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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The Southlake megachurch and its attorneys want to use someone from the American Arbitration Association or a district judge to settle the matter.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Apr. 2026
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Warner Brothers waits to be subsumed by Netflix or Paramount, cinemas are losing customers to streaming, and franchise entertainment continues to dumb us all down.—
Michael O’Donnell,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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The show turns ten this year, and its design remains resolutely old-school: no video pivot (yet), no attempts to tighten conversations, no instinct to dumb anything down.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Shush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shush. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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