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Noun
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Take the two pages where Dyer writes about his father’s extreme reticence about his own past.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025 -
The more acute risk — and, sources say, the primary reason for Trump’s reticence to act against Powell — is the expectation that any move would immediately trigger a significant market sell-off.—
Phil Mattingly,
CNN Money,
11 July 2025
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That phonetic play alone already signals one of the project’s theoretical subterfuges: that of exploring the most advanced conditions of the subject’s annihilation as a foundational precondition for artistic authority.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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An especially Jewish theme in the seventeenth century was not only the necessity but the dignity of subterfuge; to have lived in the shadows of another people’s empire had a nobility of its own, captured in this exquisite and ambivalent image.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
19 July 2025
Noun
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Nearly every office has someone who fills every silence, often without realizing it.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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Now, for the first time, nurses from 1950’s children homes break their silence, revealing new details about one of Israel’s most painful and unresolved cases.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
2 Aug. 2025
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The company is coming out of stealth on Tuesday, with $31 million funding; an April 2024 seed round led by Greylock Partners at $6.5 million and a $24.5 million Series A led by Redpoint Ventures in May this year.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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The perfect hunters, these big cats possess great stealth and poise—especially when hidden in the dense green brush of mangroves.—
Amber X. Chen,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 July 2025
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“Furtiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/furtiveness. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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