speak
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He said: "She lacks confidence when it comes to speaking it. But because I speak Welsh with Coco, I try to get her to speak Welsh with Coco too."
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Having cautioned last year about the prospect of froth in AI, Dalio has turned up the volume this year and begun to speak of the set-up as a bubble at risk of popping.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
I feel like this is more how I speak than maybe they’re accustomed to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Mamdani on Thursday said he was seeking to speak with Trump and would demand that immigration agents be withdrawn from the city.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
He can speak clearly and make sense of what he hears.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
He speaks to young kids from low-income neighborhoods across the Central Valley, some of whom have undocumented parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
"The profound sense of shock and sadness across our practices and the wider NHS community speaks to the impact Hannah had on so many people."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Everyone speaks as though an unseen conductor is calling out, “Allegro!” or someone accidentally pressed the 1.5x speed button in their throats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Malaysia speaks so strongly about the protection of civilians, humanitarian principles and the consistent application of international law in Palestine," said Khoo of Universiti Malaya.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The thing about Allen is that although he reads a lot, he hardly ever speaks.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" 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
For instance, thus spake the tree: “253! Time and time again! Bob! Go now!”
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2017
Thus spake Zarathustra He humbly said you listen to me and choose for yourself.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2016
Will spake to none; but stared, hollow-eyed, at the ground.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also spoke on the phone with Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang earlier this year, attempting to source more computing capacity, according to a person familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
When Byrne spoke to the dispatchers, they told him they were accustomed to finding that house by using another cross street and a different direction of travel as a reference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Bell appeared via video link and spoke only to confirm his name.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
It is unclear which suppliers Apple reportedly specifically spoke to but Tata Electronics is a major manufacturer of the iPhone 18 Pro, while Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Qualcomm also supply the company with chips.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
She spoke always as though she were describing things that she saw—as if that wide, winding staircase and those bright gardens were the reality, this cramped and filthy barracks the dream.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Coissac said he had spoken to one survivor of the wreck who came from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, where rebels are battling the federal government in a recent flare-up of violence.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Pat Cummins has spoken to Usman Khawaja about his former team-mate's upcoming autobiography, but the Australia captain said he has no concerns about potential sandpapergate revelations.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“We are walking 96 miles, so those names are spoken somewhere other than a court filing,” Edwards-Acton said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Sorkin, however, said he has never met or spoken to Zuckerberg, though at the time of “The Social Network” he had access to people around him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Hearing your name, spoken aloud by a voice full of life… It had been years.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
“The data is there,” said Pan, speaking before a banner decorated with purple butterflies and the proclamation, “Black Mothers Matter.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Greene-Placentia is speaking out now, she said, because “I need to let women know that it’s okay to talk about it.”
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
In recent days, Pike’s attorneys said she was conscious and speaking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
That she’s speaking out about it puts one more crack in the lie that women who are raped should carry any shame.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
Maybe finding Wonders would require some asking, though speaking up did not come naturally to me, as Aunt Pretty liked to point out.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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