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as in to dry up
to stop talking
you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up
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Recent Examples of shut up
Where other artists his age have long ago decided to shut up and play the hits, the mercurial 83-year-old is using his recent tour dates to cover songs from the ’50s and play tracks off his middling 2012 album Tempest, with only the occasional scrap of red meat thrown to audiences.
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Chris Stanton, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
Closure: Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer producer Spring Films was the latest UK indie to shut up shop.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
The same goes for the musical score, which rarely shuts up.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 11 Oct. 2024
After the Super Bowl this year, in which the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers amid swirling conspiracy theories, the wisest strategy seemed to be shutting up while MAGA melted down.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
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Chris Stanton, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
Closure: Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer producer Spring Films was the latest UK indie to shut up shop.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
The same goes for the musical score, which rarely shuts up.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 11 Oct. 2024
After the Super Bowl this year, in which the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers amid swirling conspiracy theories, the wisest strategy seemed to be shutting up while MAGA melted down.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shut up
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Federal funding — like how the U.S. Forest Service has been handing out $1.5 billion for planting trees in urban areas, made possible by the IRA — might dry up for many local projects, but city governments, community groups, and philanthropies will still be there.Matt Simon / Grist, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
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Blue skies returned to the Bay Area on Thursday, quickly drying up most of the evidence that the first of two storms ever arrived.Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
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The Brazilian is back in the headlines for cupping his ears and shushing the home crowd at the weekend as Madrid beat Real Sociedad 2-0 in Anoeta.Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
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There’s no scolding kids for turning in books late or shushing noisy students.Scottie Andrew, CNN, 29 Sep. 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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Sean Diddy Combs and his legal team have moved to silence witnesses off the stand.DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Prosecutors with the Southern District of New York opposed Combs’ motion, claiming not only was the request broad and overreaching, but would potentially silence accusers who were not part of the criminal case.Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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Judges struggle to name favorite cheese Ask a judge to pick their favorite and most will clam up, dodge the question or offer a long, unranked list.Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
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One social worker said that a girl clammed up in a recent interview that her mother was invited to.Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
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The unconscious mind lingers on the problem even after people have used strategies to quiet the fear by pushing it from awareness.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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As chief executive of a superpower, Harris would also be able to quiet lingering doubts that women are equipped to make decisions of war and peace.Linda Robinson, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2024
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Under Moderation there are more settings for staying safe, including tools to mute certain words and to mute or block accounts.David Nield, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2024
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Republicans for Harris are likewise out in force, muting their policy disagreements for the time being.Christine Adams / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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For the coda, Shostakovich and Mravinsky apparently settled on a metronome marking of eighth note = 184 or 188.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Lucius Elliot, head of contemporary marquee auctions, said in the period between securing consignments for the November auctions and actually selling them this week, the market had settled.Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Shut up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shut%20up. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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