as in to hush
to stop talking
all of a sudden the suspect just dummied up and demanded the presence of an attorney
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McIlroy would hush the USA crowd after putts, while Reed would bow to their applause.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
24 Sep. 2025 -
Robert Kraft — sandwiched in between Travis Scott and his fellow REFORM Alliance Board Member Michael Rubin — shared hushed conversations with both.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
15 Sep. 2025
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Federal funding for those programs dried up a couple of years later, but about 30 states decided to find other ways to pay for the programs.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
7 Oct. 2025
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As wetlands dry up and saline dust spreads, communities across the country face increasing health risks and environmental degradation.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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Then, after Austin Jackson sustained his season-ending knee injury in early November in Miami’s loss to the Bills , the Dolphins run game clammed up.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
29 July 2025
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Although that doesn’t account for those opposite behaviors (e.g., clamming up).—
Caleb Harris,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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The compressed air is then piped down to enormous sealed salt caverns thousands of feet below the Earth's surface for long-term storage.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
30 June 2025
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At one point, crowd-surfers pulled pipes down from the ceiling.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2025
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And here you are shut up in this little cage.—
Ron Arias,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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So pull up Duolingo to start brushing up on that high school Spanish, stop crying, shut up and dance.—
Angel Diaz,
Billboard,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Dummy up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dummy%20up. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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