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“There are a lot of parents who support Judy, love Judy, but are afraid to speak up,” said Ellie Kadz, a marketing executive and mother of three.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

As soon as confusion sets in, speak up.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

“I can’t speak to their specific mindset or what was said by them.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The son of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday he was allowed to speak to the detained former democratic leader for the first time in more than five years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

He didn’t even attempt that in wolf talk, because he’d realized that he didn’t actually speak it very well.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

McKinney thinks Roy’s emphasis on fighting Trump speaks to a misunderstanding of the job.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Habba’s record as the president’s personal attorney speaks for itself.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Gadi Eisenkot, the man who could unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, almost always dresses in plain black, speaks halting English and, reflecting the military culture that shapes him, responds in interviews in bullet-point lists.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

That it is, in fact, a statement an ancillary character makes in Paweł Pawlikowski’s new film, “Fatherland,” speaks to the stench thickening the movie’s moral atmosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

He speaks in Algonquian with our visitors, and I listen closely, trying to understand what they are saying: They are here to trade.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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

"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

This plan was not thought entirely without merit by our number, and we spake of how best to effect it.

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

Medical experts I spoke with this week explained that MS can be difficult to identify because there is no one blood test to diagnose it, and it shares symptoms with other diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

In August, I spoke with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., as he made his way from the Capitol subway to his Senate office the day after El-Sayed’s primary win.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The IT workers we spoke to all agreed that these kinds of serious flaws were going to be uncovered more frequently now that AI tools had become so good at hacking.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Launched by Elizabeth Koch and Andy Hunter more than a decade ago, the independent publisher will shutter operations in just over a week, per Publisher’s Weekly, which spoke with members of the publisher’s union.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

My heart had stopped by then, so I could have heard every word she spoke.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

For a man who has previously spoken about prioritising match-winning contributions over individual achievements, Brook the captain was left dejected that his innings ultimately counted for nothing.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“I have always spoken about the importance of taking care of the workers in this industry, because they have earned their livelihoods from this work,” Mamdani said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

"She was sounding fairly healthy," her son, Kim Aris, told AFP after the telephone conversation, which he said was the first time he had spoken to his mother in more than five years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Gascón told The Times last week he has no interest in the job and hasn’t spoken to Raman or her team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Because, as I mentioned, up until a few days before, I hadn’t spoken in years.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

“For advisers, speaking with authority and confidence takes work,” Robb said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Bobby Pulido, in brown vest and white cowboy hat, upper left, takes a photo with rallygoers after speaking on Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

OpenAI told The Wall Street Journal that it fired the three researchers after an internal investigation found they violated “clear policies for handling sensitive information,” and “not for raising safety concerns or speaking out.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The US president was speaking hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said connectivity, which is provided by Musk's satellite-based Starlink system, had yet to be fully restored.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

When I awake, I don’t remember any of the words that were said, just the sense that many people were speaking.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila