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How to use the word rumour in a Sentence?

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Like thieves in the night, the coalition just passed a disgraceful and corrupt personalized law in response to a baseless rumour about recusal. Every citizen of Israel should know – days before Passover, while cost of living is soaring, Netanyahu is once more looking out only for himself.

Yair Lapid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Stupids still can't digest the fact that they were fooled by media who spread lies and fear by constantly saying rumour that there is a virus Covid-19 and they are even now seen wearing masks. Doctors looted the patients by injecting vaccines and under the cover of treatment.

Mukaibar Shah

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Corona virus rumour was created by Government, spread by media by constant telling lies to instill fear in people, accepted by fools who still wear masks and it was benefited by doctors, pharmacy companies, big politicians and businessmen

Mukaibar Shah

added by anonymous
3 years ago

What technology has done is it’s enabled them to spread far more quickly and far more internationally in a way that is fairly unprecedented, rumour can begin in Italy one day and it can be across multiple continents a few days later, as we have seen happen several times.

Tom Phillips

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Do not be intimidated or misled, exploited by those with ulterior motives and in particular, do not be a rumour monger yourself, or join the anti-China forces in stigmatizing or demonizing the legislation.

Xie Feng

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

A bad rumour flies on wings.

Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Some of the material that's been put out - on preprint servers for example - clearly has been... unhelpful, whether it's fake news or misinformation or rumour-mongering, it's certainly contributed to fear and panic.

The Lancet

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think a rally in stock prices will run out of steam soon. It's typical buy-on-rumour-sell-on-fact trade on central bank stimulus and will be over by the Fed and the BOJ's meetings, people also seem to think there will be a deal between China and the States soon but you never know when suddenly Trump (does an) about-face. We just saw that in May and August.

Tatsushi Maeno

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If you're a trader, you're taking profit now. You buy on the rumour, sell on the news, wait till it goes down, and buy again.

Sean Taylor

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Rumour has it that, after his election, Trump declared: "Yesterday, we were on the edge of the abyss but today, we have taken a big step forward!"

Fabrice

added by anonymous
7 years ago

It was a buy the rumour, sell the fact event, the market is coming around to the idea that it is not bad news, but not as good news as it was anticipating.

Ben Le Brun

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The direction has been clear for so long, and many have sold on the rumour and bought on the news, however, this is not a typical downgrade, as it is part of a longer-term evolution - and it is not the last event.

Bryan Carter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've been a really, really strong takeover target now for the thirteen years I've been at Meggitt, lots of people want to be aerospace, lots of people want to have strong aftermarket positions. It's no surprise that the odd rumour pops up.

Chief Executive Stephen Young

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A sizeable percentage of the market is factoring in some sort of quantitative-easing announcement, so there's a touch of trepidation, investors have bought the rumour so they could sell the news.

Alistair McCaig

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

QE (speculation) has been around for so long that I think it will be a 'buy the rumour and sell the announcement'.

Markus Huber

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

J. R. R. Tolkien

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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