speak
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But instead of the conversation focusing on consent, this generation of parents appears to be expanding it to teaching young boys to be willing to speak up.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
If you've been affected by the issues raised in this story, you could speak to a health professional or an organisation that offers support.
From BBC ● 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
“I’m here to pay my condolences about your brother; I wanted to speak to the master of the house.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
But it’s a good story, and it speaks well of an American icon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Speaking on the BBC Radio Cymru's 'Beti a'i Phobol', Murphy, originally from Caerphilly, said that he often speaks about Wales with his girlfriend's family.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The Corposcope speaks in rigid tone: “Ocular disease. Diagnosis: retinitis pigmentosa.”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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
"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
We spake it during supper, as once, at the inception of our Regiment, all told the tales of escape; now we tell the tales of the return of soldiers to bondage.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Whittome said she spoke to the chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police on Sunday night, and added she understood the officer was "now out of surgery".
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
Another reason, said councillors and charities we spoke to, was that it is not actually council money that Birmingham is signing off but central government funding.
From BBC ● 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
She spoke the Mvskoke word for thank you easily, gratitude flowing out.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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
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
If it was true that I did not speak, had not spoken, why had I spoken to him?
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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Now he signaled to those around him that plain speaking was needed, the person said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
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
"She seemed to work a lot," commented another neighbor, also speaking on condition of anonymity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
A few people were chatting, but I didn’t understand the language or languages they were speaking.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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