stills

present tense third-person singular of still
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as in shushes
to stop the noise or speech of the conversation was abruptly stilled by a loud crash from the next room

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stills
Verb
  • When policy, innovation, and business insight align, CCU stops being a piece of green rhetoric and becomes good business.
    Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The buck stops with the humans.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Using Probiotic Supplements As mentioned above, there’s a (very small) amount of evidence that eating probiotic cheese calms the effects of drinking.
    Jamie Ducharme, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Research shows that spending time in green spaces calms the nervous system and reduces stress.
    Jessica DuLong, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The night serum visibly smooths wrinkles, reduces fine lines, and soothes the appearance of dark circles and uneven skin tone.
    Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
  • DermaVantage moisturizing lotion soothes and moisturizes dry, sensitive skin.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Proposition 50 almost completely silences minority California viewpoints in Congress until January 2033 – with no chance of changing any legislative outcomes.
    Tom Campbell, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This cultural divide silences companies and delays progress, while all the while AI is amplifying the threat.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The center beam shows color and detail clearly, while the outer glow only catches movement.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Who composes a symphony with a hammer?
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Genji visits these woods before his exile to Suma and composes a poem wishing that the forest might one day see the injustice against him reversed.
    Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The host mutes everyone upon entry.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Critics allege that Google’s dominance not only undermines traditional publishing revenues but mutes the diversity of online voices, accelerating the decline of the open, accessible web, just as Google admitted behind closed doors, in court.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Antihydra almost certainly never halts.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2025
  • More than 50 Democratic lawmakers fled the state earlier this week, a decision that halts action on redistricting, as well as other bills in the legislature.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2025
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“Stills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stills. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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