- present tense form of tell (3rd person singular).
tells
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“I’m a little baffled because I signed my kid up for soccer,” she tells the officers, “so they are literally kicking him out of this place because he’s good at soccer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Everyone knows more or less what the company does: Issue a score that tells lenders how good it thinks you are with money.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Lead modestly lifts his EPS forecasts through fiscal 2028 but tells clients in a note that he remains skeptical that ANZ can deliver on CEO Nuno Matos’s revenue targets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
This submission, he tells us, was the “ultimate loss of control and the sanest thing I ever did.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
She tells me to let the music become the soundtrack for the gold Flash.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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