speak
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"We are deeply sad about this outcome," the statement said, praising the three researchers' contributions and "their willingness to speak up and challenge ideas."
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Cold computer speak has infected everyone like a virus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Put into shackles and forced to labor in the limestone quarries of Syracuse, the captive characters speak in a working-class Dublin dialect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
As Premier League football returns following a three-week hiatus, rival clubs are proving reluctant to let their managers speak about the City verdict publicly.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
‘Come on,’ he said, not bothering to speak wolf.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
It all speaks to the power of a well-timed movie, since much of the reporting in “NAZA” has already been published by the Guardian, a co-producer of the documentary, and corroborated by other news outlets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The candidate said she often speaks on the campaign trail about fighting for Arizonans.
From BBC ● 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
Still, Mr. Sun’s jazz speaks most forcefully of this moment, especially in his neighborhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Sunny was at an age where one mostly speaks in a series of unintelligible shrieks.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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
I spake comfortably to him and fetched water both for him and for those around him, who had not received succor all day.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The Queen spoke about memorable moments in her own reading for BBC documentary The Book That Changed My Life, and about the life-changing power of literacy and books.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
WSJ: Last time we spoke, there seemed to be a lot more optimism that fuel prices were coming down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Flowers, who grew up in Las Vegas and Utah and who shares three sons with his wife, spoke about the album in his dressing room last month a few hours before the Ford show.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
I sighed over my pizza and looked around the cafeteria, as noisy as ever with everyone gossiping, laughing, and generally being people who spoke to the other people at their tables.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Late on Thursday evening, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she had spoken to President Donald Trump about the shooting and had expressed "outrage on behalf of New Yorkers".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
He has since spoken of being a “martyr” if executed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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
After some consultation, German grammar experts agreed that Kennedy had spoken correctly.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
Still, it’s worth upholding this turnaround as an example of why speaking out on animal rights can be successful.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
"People need to understand that... there's serious consequence for these types of things," Hegseth said, speaking aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Making his first film outside Romania, Mungiu had been intrigued by the 2015 case, visiting the Norwegian town where the incident occurred and speaking to family members, judges and journalists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The closest she would come to speaking about it, enough to remind me of what had gotten me into this mess.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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