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whished

verb

past tense of whish

as in hummed

to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound seemingly out of nowhere, a baseball whished past my head

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as in hissed

to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\ the match whished as it burst into flame

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Construction has hummed along at the store site, and the warehouse has started to take shape in recent weeks.

— Nathan Pilling July 8, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
Experiments were running, discoveries being made, and conferences hummed with new ideas.

— Florencia Canelli, Scientific American, 1 July 2026

Definition of hummed

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The sky lay pure and blue and a cool dry wind hissed down upon them from the plains.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 July 2026
Refn has made characters moving and speaking in a benzodiazepine fugue state — lines hissed out stiltedly into dead air, spoken like throwing stones down a well — his signature in recent films.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 May 2026

Definition of hissed

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So Canha zipped out to Burbank in California for production with the Food Network.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026
Having yanked herself out of the doldrums, Nosková zipped to a 5-2 lead in the second set, before again giving up four quick points to Muchová.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 11 July 2026

Definition of zipped

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Recalling a former boss who whispered intimate good-byes to his appliances when his restaurant closed, Luca says that the head chef didn’t receive similar farewells from his employees.

— Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 June 2026
The toys clanked, the players held their breath and onlookers whispered strategies on the sidelines – until a winner was crowned.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 24 June 2026

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