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Recent Examples of shushed
Lyonne shushed the staffer, got up and headed to the bathroom, according to Page Six.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
Some shushed the crowds, urging them to be silent and reverent.
—CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
Jena asked, for which she was shushed), that was spotted and strong enough to kill a man.
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
Martha Ross, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
Some shushed the crowds, urging them to be silent and reverent.
—CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
Jena asked, for which she was shushed), that was spotted and strong enough to kill a man.
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shushed
Verb
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But its resilience is self-evident and the past year of on-off war will have conclusively silenced any moderate voices who suggest Iran does not need a robust means of defending itself.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
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This election is a profound game-changer, not only for the people, but also the arts, liberating all those who were despised, sidelined or silenced by the corrupt regime.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The mass protests have quieted.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The Western chimpanzees quieted all of a sudden.—
Nathan Rott,
NPR,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The rattle inside his body that had played the white noise to his life was hushed.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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As Mitski played a five-night engagement at Hollywood High School this past week, any teachers who might have made it into the school auditorium for the shows must have been insanely jealous of how hushed her audiences were, at least between songs, when a hush was called for.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The jolts are muted, the setpieces are drab, and the gore is all too literally kept under wraps.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
16 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, the market’s reaction to the blockade has been muted, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq largely flat while oil prices have pared gains.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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All the grit and sugar had settled at the bottom.—
Douglas Stuart,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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At 14 weeks pregnant and with a gender reveal party on the horizon, her family said things had settled into place.—
Caroline Silva,
AJC.com,
11 Apr. 2026
Verb
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My limbs stilled and grew heavy in the heat, but Alice jiggled her knees up and down, bursting out with short spurts of conversation that weighed against the beauty of our silence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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Hostilities were temporarily stilled by a ceasefire, but fighting resumed in early December.—
John Vink,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Shushed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shushed. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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