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"kept silence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to express that someone did not speak in response to something, or as a reflection of their feelings. For example: "The auditorium was filled with deafening cheers, but John kept silence during the whole celebration."
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He should have kept Silence, and out in France forever slept.
"They [Myanmar military] looked down on us, ignored us and kept silence by saying that our kalars [a derogatory term for Muslims] do not have anything.
My dad kept silence during the whole meeting, did not say a thing.
"Some countries that are very closely allied to Morales have been very vocal, but many others have kept silence," Savarese remarked.
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An example of inappropriate transcriptional activation is that of ΔN-p73, oncogenic and antiapoptotic variants of the p73 gene from an internal promoter kept silenced by methylation of a small CpG island [ 25– 27].
Discusses "A Time to Keep Silence," Leigh Fermor's study of the monastic experience.
A Time to Keep Silence (1957) is the least elaborate and most accessible of his books.
(And for those considering a run for the presidency, "a time to keep silence, and a time to speak").
Most of the music is hymns from the Episcopal hymnal, such as "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence," his favorite.
Conservative Anglo-Catholics also appear to take theirs from I Corinthians: "Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak".
Those mandated to protect us, the structures meant to honor and lift, I began to see, were fighting instead to keep silence, to keep the status quo, and to protect the institutions themselves.
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