prepared speech
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The hologram did not just deliver a prepared speech.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026
Deviating from his prepared speech, Francis spoke about a homeless German man who recently died, “alone, abandoned,” under the colonnade circling St. Peter’s Square, where homeless persons often sleep.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2023
“And then Steinbach launched into her bizarre prepared speech where she simultaneously ‘welcomed’ me to campus and told me how horrible and hurtful I was to the community,” the judge said.
From Washington Times • Mar. 13, 2023
"We’re not going to use a blanket supervisory approach to the task at hand," Rob Morrow, Bank of Canada's executive director of Retail Payments Supervision, said in a prepared speech.
From Reuters • Nov. 2, 2022
“The first step to honest communication about race is to realize that you cannot equate all racisms,” she said, and then launched into her carefully prepared speech.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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