murmur
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During his next outpatient appointment on the morning of 19 November, medical staff noticed Archie was "very pale" and he had developed a heart murmur.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
“It never dawned on me that four years later I’d be like, the murmur is bigger than it ever was,” Glannan said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Dozens of world leaders were discussing how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in a videoconference on Friday when a murmur went up among the presidents and prime ministers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Yet they swallowed it with hardly a murmur.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
Bobby, now so focused that he could hardly hear the growing murmur from the crowd, made his next moves percussively, shooting them out like poison darts, hardly waiting for Byrne’s responses.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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