speak
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And doesn’t faith call you to stand up and to speak out at that moment?
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
Angela Nibs has spent 20 years working in PR trying to get executives to not use corporate speak or jargon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
You can see into a group of young players who has the personality to speak.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Whenever I started having people question it, I started questioning it myself like, ‘I don’t speak Spanish, but neither do my dad and my abuelito.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
We both feared it, I know we did, but did not dare speak of it.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Will Barnett, head of recruiting for a Bay Area startup, swears he still speaks like a human but finds AI-use is influencing his communications over Slack and email.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
"It somehow speaks to something a bit deeper, maybe. People get so absorbed in it."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
That speaks pretty well about the customer experience and brand loyalty.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Always in the same frame, they exude a preternatural comfort that extends beyond familial ties and speaks to their shared life paths.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
On the bus he barely speaks —all his friends live near school or ride other buses—and he always has his nose in a book.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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 Zarathustra He humbly said you listen to me and choose for yourself.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2016
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child" runs Corinthians 13:11.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2010
And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.’”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Jimmy Carter, famously a Sunday school teacher, spoke about his faith a lot.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
The state and church controlled where and how they lived, the type of schooling for children, the language they spoke, and how they could practice their culture, religion and traditional livelihoods, it said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
When I spoke with him recently, I asked how the job is changing in this age of technological transformation and geopolitical tumult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
O'Hagan's spoke on female strength and conditioning and the impact of the menstrual cycle on athletic performance, while McCool focused on breast and cervical cancer awareness.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Yes, as far as I can tell, everyone used the full name, at least the first time they spoke it in a conversation.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Eleven jurors were in favor of finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity, but they were opposed by a single holdout who has spoken publicly about being sure of her guilt.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Nelson has never spoken publicly about his mother's death.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Several celebrities, including actress Florence Pugh, have spoken out about it.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Several firms with which I have spoken this year report that junior analysts now produce presentations of remarkable polish with AI assistance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
And he’d had plenty of time to spend with Thor, because Janie had barely spoken to him since the pajama-top incident.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
“Generally speaking, we view the yen’s undervaluation as problematic,” Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Company boss Sam Altman, speaking in San Francisco on Tuesday during OpenAI's yearly event for technology developers, referred to "dots" as "remarkably capable, always-on agents that can handle really anything you can think of."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Broadly speaking, many AI-linked stocks were rallying Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
The paper also obtained a video showing Rodriguez speaking with parents at a baseball field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The first man immediately began speaking in rapid-fire French.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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