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speak

[speek] / spik /




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But these figures, members of the traditional evangelical elites, do not speak for the entire community of evangelical elites.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

One potential application involves speech prosthetics, technologies designed to help people communicate when injuries or neurological conditions have impaired their ability to speak.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Kliatchko gives voice to how many of the CEOs I speak with approach AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Martinez said he felt it was important to speak out the way he did.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Dad opened his mouth to speak, but him and Tansy exchanged a glance, and he said nothing.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Most obviously, Carrick, having deflected questions about the defender's outburst in the immediate aftermath of the game, will face more probing on the matter when he speaks to the media before Sunday's trip to Leeds.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

McVay said that he would have an update on Garrett’s situation when he speaks with reporters Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

But Parisian pupil Kaspar, 15, speaks of his fear when coming face-to-face with police in full riot gear.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Everyone speaks as though an unseen conductor is calling out, “Allegro!” or someone accidentally pressed the 1.5x speed button in their throats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

And then the person lifts their head and speaks for the first time.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Thus spake one of the world’s most powerful men this week, after he gained more power still.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022

Thus spake Martin Luther King Jr. at the end of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2020

Thus spake Kanye West to his wife, Kim Kardashian West, and, via the bully pulpit of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” to all of us.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2018

Thus spake Chris Morris’s ludicrously hostile Day Today news anchor, in an attack-dog interview with a woman who’d just raised “a pathetic amount of money” for charity with a jam festival.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2015

I did not know of what she spake, whether of that night or another night; whether of a kiss, a touch, or a blow.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

He also spoke about the early days of adjusting to a new club and home, something he describes as "really difficult".

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

As a kid in Kansas City, she’d plan her costume months in advance, prowling Spencer’s Gifts and Party City with her mom in search of something that spoke to her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

She said she had attended the Labour Party conference and went to a fringe event where she said she spoke to Brand.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

At the IIF event on Wednesday, Bowman also spoke about addressing what she identified as key problems with some of the regulations enacted after the financial crisis in 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

When he spoke it was so low I could hardly hear.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Hegseth and Trump had spoken before the announcement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

And those are just the ailments he and the Dodgers have spoken about publicly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Carrey had spoken about his affinity for solitude even earlier.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Singer and actor Ray Quinn has spoken of the "heartbreaking" loss of his baby son, Rio, who was stillborn.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

He has already been spoken of once here when he taught me about heart and the will to pull.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

While he was unfamiliar with all the details of Zacharia’s career after graduation, Alford said that “generally speaking it would be unusual to say that you’re a lawyer if you’ve not passed the bar somewhere.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Warsh will be speaking late Thursday evening, East Coast time, from the International Monetary Fund/World Bank annual meeting in Bangkok.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

What sort of pleasure do you get from performing things you’ve written, as compared to speaking other people’s words, or panel shows, where you’re just going off the top of your head?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Maresca was speaking on Tuesday at a news conference before Wednesday's Champions League game with European champions Paris St-Germain.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Her voice trembled, as if speaking to Clare was costing her every bit of courage.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman


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