suspiration

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suspiration
Noun
  • In a 2023 study, Richards and colleagues found that Australia’s 3-million-year-old Pliocene shorelines had ridden the slow heave and sigh of Earth’s mantle, and that accounting for that vertical motion resulted in lower estimates for ancient sea levels.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
  • However, investors let out a sigh of relief when management left the full-year outlook unchanged and provided a fourth-quarter NII guide that was above the Street.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Caroline’s question elicited an off-camera gasp from one competitor, as well as a headshake from Feyisola, another houseguest.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 8 Oct. 2025
  • But Miami recovered the last-gasp onside kick to preserve the victory.
    Manny Navarro, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The interior aims for a whisper quiet experience with acoustic glass, and features leather seats with heating, cooling and massaging functions.
    Tony Leopardo, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • While the ability to hear a whisper is remarkable, the more essential question is whether the children could understand what was being said.
    Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Now the babble about them is back.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Mesopotamian corpses, stirred by the babble of trade, wander the halls wrapped in shrouds of extravagant malice.
    David Velasco, Harpers Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • The bad news is that there are already murmurs in Brussels about piecemeal, incremental measures – harmonizing certain national laws, creating yet another framework for EU member states to fuss over and interpret.
    Jan Hammer, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • It was said that the people of Owensboro could hardly sleep for the town’s murmur.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • High in the hills near the Myanmar border, Ban Rak Thai greets the morning with the smell of oolong and the soft rustle of tea leaves.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • As Denver’s locker room echoes with the empty rustles of equipment staffers, Jahdae Barron lingers.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That calmness, however, was soon overtaken by the kitchen, with the hiss of the pans, stir of the pots and sharp calls exchanged between cooks quickly filling the air, along with the sounds of an upbeat Peruvian song playing in the background.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The first meeting resulted in a hiss from Miriam, but after a few days, the two are obsessed.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For the signature bitterness, instead of the classic Campari, Taylor used the deeper Averna—where Campari’s orange bitterness is bright and juicy, Averna’s orange bitterness is a lower hum, like a flourless chocolate cake.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Back at its Utah HQ, where the walls are lined with pink Crumbl University diplomas and the test kitchen hums with invention, the next big flavor is already in the oven.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Suspiration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suspiration. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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