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the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture

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whistling

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the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle

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whistling

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a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it

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acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound

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an inexpensive fipple flute

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make whistling sounds

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move with, or as with, a whistling sound

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utter or express by whistling

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move, send, or bring as if by whistling

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make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound

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sing

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give a signal by whistling

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An excellent example of whistle-blowing in a healthcare organization is the case of Barry Adams, RN, who blew the whistle on unsafe nurse staffing and its impact on patient care.

When should you blow the whistle for ethical reasons?

Personally, I think it's time someone blew the whistle on the Sheffield official.

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The following spring, Felt and FBI Counterintelligence Chief Edward Miller effectively blew the whistle on themselves by publicly admitting that they had authorized the "black bag jobs" assuming full responsibility for them.

Watergate & the weather underground: former FBI second-in-command Mark Felt, aka Watergate's "Deep Throat," was an opponent of both presidential corruption and domestic terrorism

But his professional life started to fall apart two years ago after he blew the whistle on a coworker, who was running a private sporting goods business from the work site, and on their mutual supervisor, who had turned a blind eye.

A blind eye to discrimination: Scott Bloch, the Bush appointee who tried to ditch protections for gay federal employees, has a new scandal on his hands: a gay whistle-blower Bloch's office tried to sweep under the carpet

Roger Boisjoly and Allan McDonald, for example, were engineers with Morton Thiokol Corporation, a National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) contractor, when they blew the whistle on the design and decisional flaws that led to the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster.

Blowing the whistle on fen-phen: an exploration of MeritCare's reporting of linkages between fen-phen and valvular heart disease

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