rumour

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Did JAH actually start this rumour, or was it a lie?

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gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

Meaning at a glance

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noun

gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

verb

tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rumour.

noun

gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

verb

tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman"

Example sentences

Did JAH actually start this rumour, or was it a lie?

But to say a rumour is "all it will take" is to ignore recent history.

This is a rumour that MS is taking a meaningful look at porting Office to Linux.

JAH says that she was harassed because she was accused of starting the rumour, and Heather sat silently.

It seems that JAH was accused of starting the rumour against Tom's wife, and that is why JAH was called into the HR office.

Kiwi here and the rumour is that this new venture breaks his parole so back to the little jail cell with a mouldy mattress for him.

It would seem very appropriate to talk to a worker accused of starting a vicious rumour, and get all the facts.

I'm surprised there isn't a rumour about a secret HN board accessible by invitation only.

There is a rumour floating around that Mantle, a new low level gpu api from AMD launching on desktops soon, is the same api the next gen consoles are using.

Can a question mark make an unsubstantiated rumour into journalism?

Authorities are refusing to confirm or deny the rumour that his death was caused by an internet prank, as his stamp-collecting site was repeatedly flagged as terrorist material by members of the discussion site 4chan.

GeoHot being a "PS3 hacker" would likely naturally have led these people to assume the latter, and the combination of general ignorance of the issue and an emotionally charged reaction to cheaters likely enabled that rumour to spread virally.

They are a great illustration of markets behaving completely irrationally and becoming divorced from any efficient relationship between price and underlying or future value due to euphoria, panic, over-abstraction or obfuscation of assets and risk, monetary stimulus, corruption, cornering, rumour etc, etc.

-- Lost a lot of trust in the userbase when they did the ridiculous "Matt has viewed the following questions" stunt.-- Kicked one of the 2 co-founders, Cheever off, rumour has it he didn't want to go as aggressively after growth as D'Angelo & other powers wanted.-- Widely sneered at in SV as being the company to look at if you want to know what "taking it too far with forcing growth" means.