hush up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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In other words, money that a person pays someone to hush up something.
From Seattle Times • May 5, 2024
Harry is suing Mail on Sunday publisher Associated Newspapers Ltd. over an article alleging he tried to hush up his separate legal challenge over the British government’s refusal to let him pay for police security.
From Washington Times • Mar. 17, 2023
Glasnost faced a dramatic test in April 1986, when a nuclear power station exploded in Chornobyl, Ukraine, and authorities tried at first to hush up the disaster.
From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2022
We’ve heard that his lawyer went through contortions to hush up a hush-up.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2018
Ordinarily if anybody was saying hush up around here, it was Aunt Loma, despite she was fourteen years younger than my mother.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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