speech
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Traders will be closely watching his speech at next week's annual meeting of central bankers, economists and finance chiefs in Jackson Hole, hoping for some clarification on monetary policy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, in a recent speech, proposed reviving dialogue with the North to discuss a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Ignore how free speech does not entail freedom from consequences.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
On Aug. 14, the BBC asked a federal court in Miami for permission to compel testimony and records from Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Kushner concerning the drafting and meaning of the speech.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Its voice was rusty, as if its tongue were unused to speech.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Clement Attlee provided Purpose and Policy – a selection of his speeches.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The message is a frequent theme in Paxton’s stump speeches.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
And so taking away five categories, there’s going to be that much fewer speeches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
But she makes such heavy weather of Hermione’s speeches denying her infidelity—bringing a fiery righteousness and much volume to her lengthy protestations—that Gertrude’s famous phrase, “The lady doth protest too much,” rattled through my head.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Moreover, he was not cut out for all the ceremonial obligations: “I hate speeches, messages, addresses and answers, proclamations, and such affected, studied, contraband things,” he wrote sulkily to Abigail.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Academy Awards, List 1
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"Encounter"
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Literary Terms, Part I
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