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speak

[speek] / spik /




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"This officer was going to speak to two individuals who were acting suspiciously, and this happened," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

He added that he would leave the decision to her, according to CNN, but said they would speak when he returned to the White House.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 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

If I let her speak, she’ll screw this up.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

But it’s a good story, and it speaks well of an American icon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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 Zarathustra He humbly said you listen to me and choose for yourself.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2016

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

From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2010

My mother had not been unspecific when she spake of her royal Egba parentage and my birthright.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

Vrancken spoke later about individual errors and that was obvious, but what else?

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 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

The barking voice on the other end of the line spoke in rapid-fire French.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has spoken to the Daily Mirror, telling the paper that she has never for a moment considered walking away from politics.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 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

That’s one reason federal law requires most providers to make healthcare communication meaningfully available in the language patients understand, via a human interpreter for spoken communication and a translator’s review for written information.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Her parents exchanged a look, the kind of look in which something is decided without a word being spoken.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

However, some fans have fixated on the change, posting compilation videos showing the evolution of her speaking style, external on YouTube.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Now he signaled to those around him that plain speaking was needed, the person said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

"She seemed to work a lot," commented another neighbor, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

We both know of whom we’re speaking but we still haven’t said his name.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse


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