Example Sentences
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The company recently began clinical trials of a treatment that silences the genetic instructions for the Alzheimer’s tau protein.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
It suggests that no other irreversible power to immunize lurks in the Constitution’s silences.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
The mixture of two pianos and harmonium creates a timbre that somehow manages to seem both eerie and comfortable, and the silences that surround the sounds are as important as the sounds themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Jonsson’s silences always seem to say so much and in “Wasteman” he capitalizes on his reserved demeanor and smaller frame to create a character who is much less frightening than those around him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
Then she got up and went into the kitchen, leaving Francis and me to one of the more torturous silences I have ever experienced.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
