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speak

[speek] / spik /




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Pauline said she agreed to speak now not only for Diane, but for Alan and their parents.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

She knows how to speak, dictate orders and ideas.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

"We're able to go around the edge. So, we've gone from a ring to understanding where on the ring the gemstones are, so to speak."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

“It’s not a place of extremists but people were really inflamed,” Sosnoff says, noting that some people were reluctant to speak on camera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

She’s used to me being too shy to speak up.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Trisha Addicks, who runs a sorority recruitment consulting firm and regularly speaks with sisters at campuses nationwide, recalls a “wild west” when she was in college in the late 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Even when everyone speaks the same language, patients and doctors struggle to communicate about symptoms, treatment options, and risks.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

She speaks to Lucy Owen about the evolution of how her villain character became Welsh.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

“He speaks to me with his eyes, body language. We have been together all his life, and so we know...We know each other so well.”

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

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

And Gibran spake, It is a misprint for The Profit.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2010

“And Lot went out and spake unto those that were worthy!”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

They spoke in code, referring to "repairs at the school".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

A corrections department board two years ago moved to grant Luster’s early release on parole, over the objections of all three victims, who appeared at the hearing and spoke against a release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

The Wall Street Journal spoke to Goldin about how the company researches people’s passions and turns these into products and marketing campaigns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Cremo, who has overseen "Bardo" since it was commissioned eight years ago, spoke with AFP from Warsaw on the eve of the premiere of "Mothers of Kherson," which the Met commissioned in 2023.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

And always at these meetings I spoke of Betsie’s first vision: of a home here in Holland where those who had been hurt could learn to live again unafraid.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

US actress Selma Blair has spoken out after being accused of assaulting multiple people on a flight travelling to New York.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Detectives have spoken to Jackson’s relatives, who confirmed he was last seen visiting them in Arkansas in the early 1980s, Price said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Many students protesting in recent weeks have spoken of inequalities in the education system, especially between Paris and its poorer working-class suburbs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Rodrigo Seira, a partner at law firm Cooley, said the firm has spoken with the agency a couple of times and expects revisions to the current innovation exemptions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

As soon as he’s spoken, his thoughts get the better of him.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Jason O'Connell said the technology had helped boost his confidence when speaking in the Senedd, and denied it risked misleading people into thinking he was speaking without notes.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Fed officials won’t be speaking publicly until after the decision.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

Ueda, speaking at a news conference in Bangkok after attending the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings, reiterated that the Japanese central bank is in tightening mode.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"We value our relationship with Indonesia, but that should not prevent us from speaking up when remarks are inappropriate," said the parliamentarian.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

When the audience did not understand, Maggie stopped speaking to demonstrate.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock


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