" The visitor murmured to his friend, "Probably Maureen Dowd.
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" Elena murmured, "Your father is a very charming man.
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The time for murmured assurances and spousal procrastination was over.
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"First off, I'm going to call my counselor," she murmured.
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"This is seriously disturbing," Ms. Field murmured and moved on.
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"Amazing," he murmured, standing on tiptoe to take her picture.
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I murmured that that's because "Rogue Lawyer" wasn't as good.
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"I wonder if we should risk it," he had murmured.
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"This can't be real," many people murmured under their breaths.
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"Oh, Godfrey," Olive murmured, sitting down at the kitchen table.
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"He has pity for the Cambodian people," his assistant murmured.
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I murmured the truth nervously, barely looking at my friends.
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"The pets decided to bring us all back together," she murmured.
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"You've made your point," Adda murmured to the Casey's AI copilot.
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The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.
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"That's some hard work," she murmured, and retreated to her truck.
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I murmured something about running out of food in my room.
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"I heard he likes getting blown by young women," Bhadveer murmured.
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"Don't ask for an ambulance," I murmured through stiff, bloated lips.
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"Why tonight, God?" he had murmured in the hospital, doubled over.
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Ms. Rizzolo mostly nodded and murmured agreement while continuing to cut.
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An audience of doctors murmured back, no, that was not true.
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"It's the strangest sensation…" she murmured, staring off into the distance.
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She picked up a telephone at the desk and murmured into it.
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"I don't even like bears," she murmured, just before we hung up.
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She murmured distractedly, mostly to herself, as she fumbled for her jewelry.
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As he said this, people murmured knowingly and wrote in their notebooks.
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Critic's Notebook "Let's be outrageous," Brandon James Gwinn murmured into a microphone.
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Several Republican senator murmured "not true" as soon as Schiff said it.
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"I think human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution," he murmured.
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The audience murmured audibly; the London assailant was a native-born Briton.
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"Yeah, yeah, they're coming very slowly," a woman murmured into her cellphone.
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Some angry passengers reportedly murmured that the wedding party was "hijacking" the plane.
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"We're on to Cincinnati," Belichick murmured several times through the presser's opening questions.
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He murmured something about the living characters being scarier than the dead ones.
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"The stairs are a little rickety," she murmured and hit the light switch.
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"She is missing, who hosts a funeral for a missing person?" she murmured.
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When he hit play, a gently paternal voice murmured out of the speaker.
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"It's incredible," a friend once murmured to me, hours after delivering her son.
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" Instead, she murmured wistfully, "I guess we know each other pretty well, huh?
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They murmured softly and smiled sweetly and asked: Might you like to bid?
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He pulled Mills into a bear hug and murmured plaudits into his ear.
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He was about to slink back to the kitchen when Annie murmured in agreement.
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The only dialogue is murmured snippets of conversations that run through one man's mind.
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As he drove away, he murmured comforting words in the direction of his cargo.
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As they waited in the temple, they murmured quietly and shifted in their seats.
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"They're great people," he murmured back on the plane after the event in Buffalo.
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" The students murmured until Efros advanced to the next slide, revealing the word "to.
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"Where would Joni be?" she murmured to herself as she flipped through a stack.
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"How is it possible for a man to be so cruel," Mr. Kent murmured.
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It was always like this, he murmured, it was supposed to be like this.
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Yes, in Mandalay, a crowd murmured in prayer, edging closer to the Buddha image.
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Perhaps, observers murmured, Mr Trump really was reckless enough to risk a second Korean war.
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"This tumor is invading the brain," one surgeon murmured to another in an operating room.
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I think I murmured "I fucked your boyfriend" while laughing, which was a bad call.
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"It seems like a difficult moment to get to the other side," Mr. García murmured.
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"I gotta get rid of this guilt feeling," he murmured about that moment's 727 emails.
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"I gotta get rid of this guilt feeling," he murmured about that moment's 727 emails.
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"I hate him," she murmured, nodding off again, the cigarette burning, forgotten, between her fingers.
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Dillie murmured approvingly, took snapshots for the receipt, and slipped the figurines into padded bags.
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" Barack gently removed my fingers from his sleeve and murmured, "But you are home, Melania.
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He murmured a graveside promise to Mary that he would be back to remedy this.
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" Another elder, knotting his wing tips, murmured, "You won't feel that way when you're seventy.
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The crowd murmured and cheered, often rising to their feet as rousing historic words were read.
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"Bravo," murmured Luisa Mandelli, a soprano who sang with Maria Callas at La Scala in Milan.
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"They can obviously sing it, but they're not playing intentions strong enough," he murmured to Stine.
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"Oh yeah, dude," the cattle rancher murmured with a slow-motion nod as we stepped inside.
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People murmured their approval, so darling, the brief conjunction of goodness on this goddam nightmare ride.
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"We on the clock / All the time / All the time / We on the clock," she murmured.
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CreditCreditMicaiah Carter for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — "Faster alone, further together," Brad Pitt murmured.
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"If anyone finds out what we do, they will kill us," murmured 200-year-old Romida.
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"Garbage, garbage, this is all garbage," Mr. Rivera murmured as he filled cubbyholes with holiday catalogs.
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Measured against the original promises murmured by Jony Ive's voiceover, the Apple Watch is hardly a success.
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"May God make it easier for you," Risheq murmured in Arabic as she patted the grandmother's knee.
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She murmured a prayer under her breath, and then we just stood there, taking it all in.
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Nicole murmured, "We'll make it through this," as if she were the parent and Shannon the child.
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The studio was a quiet hum of murmured French and English, punctuated by Beyoncé on the speakers.
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"I've lost all the men in my life," Charon murmured, listing her mentor, her husband, and more.
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" Perry Ogwuche murmured, "YC tells us, 'Talk to your customers,' but it's hard to find our customers.
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But at least a dozen times during his reliably 32-minute oration, someone standing nearby me murmured, ''Amen.
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When the Trinidadian bowler Shannon Gabriel charged in murderously, feet pounding the turf, the English contingent murmured contentedly.
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I opened a YouTube tab and murmured "motorcycles" to it, typed and erased "motorcycles" in the search field.
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"Well, she gets points for consistency, I'll give her that," Dorothy murmured as she continued thumbing her phone.
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We murmured, 'Good football,' about them as though it had nothing to do with the winning of matches.
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Audience members turned in the direction of the young woman, now weeping uncontrollably, and murmured anxiously among themselves.
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"The poor thing," she murmured, and lifted her face so I could see the tears blurring her eyes.
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"I love you, baby," Ms. Acosta murmured into her daughter's ear, savoring their final embrace for a month.
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"The passport," she murmured again, as she struggled to reach the floor, her emaciated arms trembling from the effort.
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Some murmured: If that's the start of this event, what's going to happen when the mayor takes the stage?
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As the after-party came to an end, a friend of his murmured something about an after-after-party.
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Congressional aides and journalists, crowding a second floor corridor, murmured and nodded after Mr. Menendez emerged from an elevator.
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Whatever happens in the election, stories long murmured around Gadsden are now out and have to be reckoned with.
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As Trump railed against Muslims, a few in the G.O.P. murmured that they wished he wouldn't be so divisive.
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But in a recent interview with Bean, Huffington Post finally learned the true nature of Ned Stark's last murmured words.
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"When I hear the word 'fine casual,' I think of lower user frequency," he murmured in his slow Southern drawl.
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"Brandy Library accepts cash, Visa, cash, MasterCard, cash, Diners Club, cash, American Express, and cash," the woman murmured, reading aloud.
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They murmured to each other lazily while they plucked up and matched the beads with the tips of their needles.
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"I don't know how he's going to be able to do this," he murmured with a grin to van Hoytema.
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"Left arm straight, head down," Anthony Michael Hall murmured as he took his stance at the Chelsea Piers driving range.
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"I'm right here," Elizabeth murmured as her daughter burrowed her head into the space between her neck and bare shoulder.
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Fans murmured — or roared, in some cases — as columnists and critics posed sharp questions and players and coaching staffs changed.
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But then a thought occurred to her, and she smiled slightly as she turned and murmured something to Mr. Joffe.
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As I walked, I murmured, partly to myself, partly to my father, to the sky, to whatever might lie beyond.
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" He then murmured and backtracked on some of the statement adding, "My main objective is that he become a great person.
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They had, it was murmured, dined like kings, eating turtle soup and ortolans, washed down with bottle upon bottle of champagne.
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The tranquillity of the scene was disturbed only by the gurgling of the water and the murmured instructions of my teacher.
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The people in the crowd, agitated by his threats, now murmured to one another about what they ought to do next.
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"See you later," I murmured, although I didn't, because, after I left for the airport, Mark read dozens of our messages.
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"Mmm, you taste so good, my darling," he murmured, his fingers now joining his mouth, slowly gliding in and out, agonizing me.
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"He swallowed humiliations and bore a heavy burden," murmured one old man, explaining his admiration for Zhou as he left the performance.
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Politics are present, but with a few notable exceptions, murmured, coded, stitched into the weave of fastidiously form-conscious, labor-intensive work.
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At one point, two members of the group took her aside and murmured a quiet prayer, asking God to keep her covered.
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Politics are present but, with a few notable exceptions, murmured, coded, stitched into the weave of fastidiously form-conscious, labor-intensive work.
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And the atmosphere certainly had a funereal quality to it, with spectators watching and cutting in silence or speaking in murmured tones.
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"I'm very interested in how people meet," murmured a woman in a long red skirt, sipping a Lost City (kumquats, tequila, ginger).
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"I just murmured my feelings that smokers should not be discriminated against more than necessary," he said in the statement on his website.
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"He's much older than I thought he'd be," murmured the woman seated behind your columnist in Burlington, as the final applause faded away.
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"A wonderful thing happens over time," he murmured the other day as Lola, the tiniest of his hyperkinetic menagerie, nestled at his chest.
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He was christened at 14 days old, and he reportedly "slept, murmured, gurgled and yawned" through the service at Georgetown University Hospital's chapel.
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Now their speaking out suggests a cultural shift in Silicon Valley, where such predatory behavior had often been murmured about but rarely exposed.
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"I look like a Pilgrim prepping for Thanksgiving," she murmured to herself, a rare moment when she does not seem completely self-assured.
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Afterward, we lit cigarettes and murmured about what fun we had even though we also agreed that we could never go there again.
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" Example No. 2, my favorite: As she snuggled up to me, eyes closed and semiconscious, she murmured, "I love you more than anything.
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On a recent evening, a self-conscious crowd in hipster dress murmured softly, under the pop-synth beat of William Onyeabor's Nigerian funk.
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Crackly synths and washed-out found sounds bridge gaps between the disparate sounds and styles, at turns evoking church organs and murmured prayers.
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Undisturbed, they locked eyes and murmured quietly over dinner (which, for Diana, was scrambled eggs with wild mushrooms and asparagus, along with sauteed sole).
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Following his big brother, the couple's 2-year-old Kross adorably took the mic and murmured into it as the crowd responded with cheers.
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Following his big brother, the couple's 553-year-old Kross adorably took the mic and murmured into it as the crowd responded with cheers.
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As important as all of these factors are, the crowd murmured in agreement when Sharma said women entrepreneurs wanted one thing most of all.
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He nodded, murmured some nice words, then sent a push from the White House downstream to New York City, where the Somoza family lived.
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It was hard to leave things behind — "I'm still in love with garbage bin lids," she murmured wistfully — but her studio was already crammed.
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Between songs, couples murmured sweet nothings to each other in English and Diné Bizaad, the Navajo language enduring in this part of the West.
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This in case you were wondering what Dorothy Parker meant when she murmured "The poor son of a bitch" while gazing into Fitzgerald's coffin.
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Alas, being a country, we have to have an anthem foisted upon us, a murmured burr to bumble through at sporting events and royal appointments.
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"I want to see you again," he murmured as we exited the security line to fly to our homes on opposite sides of the country.
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Musician Paulo Miklos murmured a song at the introduction of his reading, and rapper Yzalú paused between words to stress the sounds of each name.
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" Why it matters: "Now their speaking out suggests a cultural shift in Silicon Valley, where such predatory behavior had often been murmured about but rarely exposed.
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When their 2-0 loss became official, some of their fans murmured a low chorus of displeasure, while others applauded briefly, perhaps out of ingrained loyalty.
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I murmured lines from it while riding the subway, while getting my wedding makeup done, while standing at the Western Wall, while waiting for that first ultrasound.
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"Unbelievable," murmured one surprised lawmaker in the chamber when Detlef Seif, a member of the Christian Democratic Union, read a satirical poem about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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"Don't tell my friends from high school—back then, it was all about not conforming," a lady in a white tube dress murmured to a co-worker.
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I murmured words of apology, calling her honey, sweetie, my friend, doubting she could ever hear me, knowing the shameful inadequacy of every syllable of my susurrations.
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" As the sun set beyond a fence of painted bamboo reeds, a breeze picked up and the woman murmured, "This is the wind that will bring the storm.
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"Is there a world," I murmured as I listened to the moans of a man who had been healthy until a disseminated staph infection cascaded through his bloodstream.
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He murmured a wish: He wanted to redraw one of the comic characters, a barrel-chested flying crusader, to more closely resemble the lanky young actor holding him.
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But she could also picture the looks that some of the diners would give other diners, the words that'd be murmured when the subject of evaluation left the room.
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Wise is black, and his victim was a white police officer — a revelation that elicited a murmured expletive from a man in the audience at the performance I saw.
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In exchange for Greek co-operation some in Berlin and Brussels have murmured about treating Greece's vast public-debt pile more leniently when the issue comes up later this year.
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Political slogans including "For the sake of God, we have risen up" echoed through Nablus's Old City after the calls from the muezzin and the murmured recitations of the faithful.
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While Iridian helped Adda and Pel free themselves from the wall, Sloane murmured something in Tritheist's ear, knocked two knuckles against the lieutenant's armored chest, and returned to the bridge console.
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Too many a mariner has murmured the parting words "Look for me in Luneta" as he has risen from the pillow to catch his departing ship in, say, Rio de Janeiro.
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To be fair, the creators and producers of "Downton" never made great claims for the show's enduring value and murmured modest expressions of surprise about its status as a cultural juggernaut.
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Leaning on a silver-topped cane, the leader of the Senate's Democratic minority murmured that Dr Heck is "a Trumpite who has been voting with Tea Party folks to close the government".
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There's a new denim silhouette in town Denim has long been one of Calvin Klein's signatures, from the moment Brooke Shields first murmured that nothing comes between her and the brand's pants.
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Take the zeal with which So Percussion's Adam Sliwinski thwacked out the opening bongo strokes of "Drumming" (1970-71) last Saturday, and the ripple of recognition that murmured through Alice Tully Hall.
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"One year," she murmured as an elevator whisked her upstairs, where dozens of people, including a man wearing camouflage fatigues and a patch that said "Vietnam Veteran," gave her a rousing welcome.
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People murmured in confusion, asking one another why the woman onstage wasn't Karyn Morton, the chair of the Republican Party of Duval County, and why she seemed to be singing in Russian.
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Here, in her own words, is how Ms. Markle did: "We met at a lunch in Miami during Art Basel," she said (then murmured, "I think this is all pretty well documented").
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As guests entered the party, they walked past a line of women dressed as "Marthas" — the domestic slaves in the world of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale — who murmured, "Under his eye," in greeting.
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As his audience murmured "Amens" and softly stamped feet against the cold, he recalled the prophet Nehemiah, who overcame exile and a wicked pagan king to return to Jerusalem and rebuild its walls.
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Sometimes I imagined her receiving a visit from dishonor, whom she knew so well, and hearing its confidence: it must have murmured in her ear, 'My hour is coming soon, my good Julie.
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Did she get the check?" he murmured, before checking in with Malia Zimmerman (Cecily Strong), who, he noted, is "normally in studio, but is now reporting live via satellite from exactly 500 feet away.
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Friends and family members who came up to hug me after the ceremony murmured in my ear that I was too thin and I needed to start eating again now that the wedding was over.
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His career seemed over, but he was writing novels, which the French liked, and noting that his new cut of "Heaven's Gate", released on DVD in 2013, was murmured by some to be a masterpiece.
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They murmured about what an especially clumsy and charisma-deficient candidate he had turned out to be, implying that if they could have tucked him into a closet and prevented him from stumping, they would have.
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Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) may have undermined his push in his final comments by citing a report of a Trump ally supposedly threatening GOP senators who vote against Trump; several Republicans murmured "not true" immediately after.
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The crowd murmured uncomfortably as technicians rushed to the stage to fix the video feed, which beamed a frozen image of Edward J. Snowden, who was some 4,660 miles away in Moscow, onto two large screens.
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Dazed that Stone and Varda occupied the same corner of the universe, I got it together and took her to the police station, where she filled out a report and murmured doubts about the young desk officer.
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It's hard to concretely describe a singer whose hallmark is airiness, yet there's a wistful quality to her murmured coos and exclamations that startles, cascading unpredictably in melodic succession as if she's merely following where the beat leads.
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When I visited him and his mother, Serkalem Fassil, at their tiny apartment in the outskirts of Washington, DC, in early January, 9-year-old Nafkot intermittently murmured and jabbed his hands, pretending to be a superhero fighting criminals.
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Adam Granduciel's voice, a breathy wisp of a thing whose murmured soulfulness conjures the image of a cool blissed-out rock frontman grinning while bobbing his head to the beat, reveals the bland feelgood nature of the whole enterprise.
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Mr Macron was saying no more than has been murmured in chancelleries and think-tanks for years, particularly since the election of Mr Trump, who has called NATO "obsolete" and chastised allies for failing to spend enough on defence.
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But I recall one marketing meeting where the topic of bullying came up, and someone hesitantly murmured, so softly I think I was the only one who heard, that in my book's world, bullies would win... I grinned crookedly.
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His murmured "not bad" as he walked out could be taken ironically, but I think we were supposed to see that he was both worried for her (and a little contemptuous, in that way he has) and reluctantly impressed.
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He effectively reassured one woman who claimed Nevada Democrats had rigged the election against Sanders at the convention last time as others murmured agreement, outlining the data teams the campaign have in place this time to catch any funny business.
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NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (Reuters) - Songyost Suwanachim placed flowers on the sidewalk outside the Terminal 21 shopping center in Thailand on Monday and murmured a prayer for the 29 victims of a rogue soldier who went on the rampage at the weekend.
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Before the film's Cannes premiere, the director issued a request to those who'd be seeing the film that they not reveal plot spoilers, which — given those known historical predilections — mostly succeeded in sparking murmured speculation about what he was up to.
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So as Annie Power approached the final jump on opening day, a deafening silence fell over the racetrack with a few "Let's go Annies" murmured like prayers, only to be shattered with a thunderous roar when she landed safely and cleanly.
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Diners were walled off from other diners psychically by high-backed booths, dim lighting and oversize menus, their imagined place atop the social ladder reinforced by silver-haired waiters in cropped jackets who murmured in Jeeves-like tones of deference.
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The cynical, fatalistic hardboiled detective novel and film noir of the nineteen-forties and fifties—popular genres that Auster has often invoked—murmured of the suppressed memory of the war's horrors, the trauma and doubt scrubbed out of American triumphalism.
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JON CARAMANICA "No Halo" is the opening track and one of the best songs from the new Sorority Noise album "You're Not as ______ as You Think," a lovely and ruminative affair full of scratchy angst, murmured reflection and uncertain resolution.
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After lagging behind in the opinion polls in the run up to Thursday's election, several murmured about the possibility of unseating Corbyn after the vote if he had done badly - a suggestion that has been put to rest, at least for now.
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Having a namesake who moved as an adult to a new country and raised her children in a language other than the one she murmured to herself has played a role, perhaps, in my endless mental assembling of a move to Limache.
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Before the 59th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, the music industry murmured about what it might mean for Adele to once again sweep the top awards, leaving Beyoncé snubbed in the major categories and with her third loss for album of the year.
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" Shockingly, though, the funniest line came when Bates urged his wife to "try to put your feet up" during her impending trip to London, and Anna, clearly envisioning the stirrups that awaited her in Dr. Ryder's office, murmured: "Yes, I'll be putting my feet up.
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Wallowing in the freedom and the budget that Amazon has given him, Mr Refn lets his hard-boiled saga trudge along at such a lethargic pace that you can leave the room and make a cup of tea in the gaps between the lines of murmured dialogue.
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At one point, in her sparkly two-piece and knee-length heeled black boots, and with her hair swept up in that bleached quiff, she murmured a "y'all can do better than that," after trying to get the largely French-speaking audience to sing the bridge.
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Bertie Wooster, for example, rarely went back to Jeeves's apartment for a glass of St-Germain topped up with Mello Yello, and I'm pretty sure that Don Quixote, whatever his true feelings, never murmured "I love you" to Sancho Panza as they drifted off to sleep.
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But as cameras on the Southern side clicked furiously, Mr Mattis murmured to Mr Song that they should turn and shake hands while facing the northern side, their only visible audience a group of four sentries from the Korean People's Army (KPA), one of whom was silently filming proceedings.
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" (After sitting idle for nearly 40 minutes, the plane took off and reached its destination.) And there was the day we hit the runway so forcefully that a flight attendant seemed to channel our collective mentality when she murmured softly, "That is not how you land the bird.
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When he murmured that musty old Rodgers and Hammerstein protest song "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" from "South Pacific," it didn't seem at all quaint, but a sad reminder of how easily buried hatred and bigotry can be rekindled and the flames fanned into a brush fire.
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More baffling still, this spook of a man, who had successfully evaded four law-enforcement agencies and become the stuff of murmured folklore — he was known locally as the "North Pond hermit" — set up camp in a community full of vacation cabins, the nearest one just three minutes away.
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" The year 1968 marks the frigid middle of the Cold War, and one spring day, the British spy Will Flemyng is "picked up" in the Paris Métro by an East German, who hooks him with the murmured promise/threat "I can tell you something very interesting about your brother.
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Her platinum plume of hair was in a state of floppy disarray suggestive of multiple rakings by harried fingers, and she had on her famous Stella McCartney sneakers along with an ensemble the color of lime sorbet, which I murmured appreciation for; it was a palate cleanser, just like her!
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Did I, a married woman who's closer to parent-of-a-teen age than actual teen age, clutch one hand over my heart and one hand over my mouth when Peter murmured "I'm in love with you, Lara Jean" because I knew in that moment that I'd never before experienced true love?
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In "The Moose," completed (after some twenty-five years of work) in 1972, madness and illness and dark family secrets are the murmured stuff of conversations on a long country bus ride, at night, until the passengers are jolted by the emergence, from a nearby wood, of a towering, gentle, otherworldly moose.
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They execute an adorable face-bump to seal the deal, followed by a marathon of slow-welling tears and murmured oddities, and I must say it's the most intimate moment of the season by far — and that includes the time Olivia begged Ben to care about her fat toes while he was in mourning.
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This room murmured appreciatively when Rami Malek talked about making a movie about a queer man — despite the fact that this particular movie largely sidestepped the queerness of that man — and everyone seemed to be happily ignoring that Bohemian Rhapsody has been mired in controversy because its director has been repeatedly accused of rape and sexual misconduct.
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It has inspired admiring coverage in publications ranging from BuzzFeed (a Photoshop-heavy piece titled "We Gotta Talk About Michael Barbaro, The Host Of The NYT's Daily Podcast") to The New Yorker (an "appreciation" by Rebecca Mead, who called the show "a twenty-minute update murmured in your ear by a well-informed, sensitive, funny, modest friend").
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Actually, what Federer said was "close; very close," at which point the crowd—perhaps forgetting that this is an exhibition tournament—murmured at the spectacle of this old veteran, the greatest player in the history of the men's game, taking it easy on the young kid, who is already terrifyingly good, as indicated by his No. 24 world ranking.
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"It's built around a quartet of elements: sampled acoustic guitar, a xylophone hook, a murmured vocal and a wobbly electronic sound that freshman dudes will pluck out on acoustic guitars and dress up with a mimed lack of confidence ('You can be addicted to a certain kind of sadness') for half a decade, at least," Jacob Ganz wrote for NPR in September 2012.
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The whirlwind sirens, and rousing cries of "Murdered Out" (is she singing "turn me on" or "tornado"?) sound so furious partially because the song is preceded by "Paprika Pony," a murmured, meditative exercise set to a trap keyboard loop and finger piano; similarly, the slow, rumbling "Earthquake" wouldn't sound so poignant and labored if it didn't follow "Hungry Baby," a breakneck storm of static and excitement.
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