speak
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“Now I am just trying to speak on my story, because LSU does really protect their athletes, especially their football players,” Francis said on TikTok.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
But if you speak with anyone looking for a job, especially in the early stage of their career, you will hear a different story.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
In team meetings, group texts and over lattes, people are catching themselves using ‘prompt speak.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
As its name suggested, that was the whole point of #MeToo: to create enough solidarity between victims and allies to make it safe for victims to speak out without their lives being destroyed.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
She’s used to me being too shy to speak up.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Issues are what Brooks starts with when she speaks to voters canvassing across Maine.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
The players closed the show with a rendition of their 1984 song “Jaula de Oro,” which speaks to the plight of the undocumented community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Will Barnett, head of recruiting for a Bay Area startup, swears he still speaks like a human but finds AI-use is influencing his communications over Slack and email.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Back in Matla, Bamita's mother speaks about the child who would ask for money for snacks, play with her sister and run inside whenever cars approached because vehicles frightened her.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
I have learned that when Rania talks to her mother, she speaks in a language the hazmats call Arabic.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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
In this secret music, I could tell those tales I was denied, and, there being no text, none could read whether I spake of docility or insubordination.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Some investors we spoke with say they are saving space in their portfolios for the hot AI company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“This settlement is about the workers who came forward and spoke up,” California Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Students and staff at the Ivy League university spoke to the BBC, some on condition of anonymity, saying the tension on campus had become palpable since the 2024 case resurfaced in recent weeks.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
"The pivotal moment for me comes when he became interested in both AI and Effective Altruism, which determined his trajectory," says a witness who spoke on condition of anonymity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Multitudes of mediums spoke spirit messages in Greek, Latin, Spanish, and French, languages the operators of the spiritual telegraph claimed not to know.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
It’s not the first time that the pope has spoken out about the relationship between AI and humanity.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Machchhar is receiving treatment for his wounds in Saudi Arabia, where his plane made an emergency landing, according to Indian lawmaker Parag Shah, who said he had spoken to the pilot’s family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Horton wished he could have spoken to Tanter ahead of the first game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said he had spoken with his UAE counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and agreed "to collaborate against extremist elements seeking to harm security and undermine stability".
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
This was odd—she and Ivy had barely spoken to each other over the past six years, outside of class.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
“I just interviewed 23 people,” he says, speaking over Zoom during his lunch break.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
But—and this is your columnist speaking, not Mr. Horowitz—a theme to emerge from the report is that Mr. Powell & Co. were too incompetent to be corrupt even if they had wanted to be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Without him opening the door, we're probably not speaking here right now," he said, adding that he "can't even start saying our gratitude for this human being".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
But speaking in Bangkok after informal closed-door talks with heads of delegations, Cordano said he was hopeful a deal could be clinched at the next official round of negotiations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Could he finally understand Wild or was this guinea pig speaking in Human?
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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