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utter

[uht-er] / ˈʌt ər /




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The dream of ambient computing is to be able to walk around and utter any request into thin air, like the high-powered voice computer system in “Her.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

"It's absolutely heartbreaking. It really is emotionally devastating, because it's utter despair: no more lake," said amateur local historian David Favre, who lives in the Swiss village of Les Brenets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

A video of Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., looking on with a mask of utter horror quickly circulated online.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

When Liverpool came to Newcastle last August, there was utter jubilation as Rio Ngumoha scored a remarkable 100th-minute winner.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Whatever has gotten into you, Aunt Kitty? I’ve never heard you utter oaths like that. Is something wrong?”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The alien language she utters in the Disclosure Day trailer was something she developed with Spielberg and the movie’s sound designer Gary Rydstrom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

In it he utters what is now one of cinema's most famous lines.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

"Brilliant," is one word that nearly every single England fan I speak to utters as I call out to them outside the stadium.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025

Gifford calls Dora’s use of Spanish a “game changer,” and that certainly seems to be the case — in the show, magical passageways remain locked unless the viewer utters the occasional Spanish phrase or word.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

With a knowing smile, she utters: “You have the blood of a Queen Mother in you. Your inheritance awaits you, my child.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The saying is one of his favorite maxims, but it hasn’t been uttered by any other world leader for centuries.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

It will decide if words uttered on the evening news are something the public shouldn’t have heard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

"It's crazy!" uttered a woman as the crowd beside suddenly burst into enthusiastic applause.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

One of the early leaders of the Coastal Commission, the late Peter Douglas, anticipated these trials and uttered a phrase I’ve repeated many times over the years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

She listened attentively to every word Penelope uttered.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

“Not where we want to be,” said quarterback Justin Herbert, quickly uttering the understatement of the afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Nearly 300 episodes, which aired during the 1990s and 2000s, showed the hapless, accident-prone brothers uttering their catchphrase "To me, to you" as they caused chaos everywhere they went.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Without uttering a word, they portray the nurses bustling behind doctors in the hit series "The Pitt," the agents guarding a crime scene in "NCIS" or, like Armella, work as "stand-ins" for stars.

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

She has a withering way of never uttering her former fiancé’s name, referring to him as “a man I met when I was 19.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

Instead, her girlfriend kept a cold hand on Molly’s arm, not uttering a single word as girls kept introducing themselves to Molly, trying to make themselves heard over the blaring music.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny


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