speech

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the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication wanting to develop a writing system for his people, Sequoya created a system of 86 symbols representing all the syllables of Cherokee speech

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Recent Examples of speech Kim made the comments during a speech at the groundbreaking ceremony for a memorial for North Korean soldiers who fought alongside Russian troops in Russia’s Kursk region during Moscow’s ongoing war with Ukraine, KCNA said. Reuters, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025 Luckily, there are ways to speech train to help maintain a higher voice, even as your vocal chords change. Quispe López, Them., 24 Oct. 2025 The keynote speech was by William Makis, a litigious covid conspiracist who, after losing his medical license in 2019, has made a living treating cancer patients with antiparasitic drugs including ivermectin, which was also championed in some circles as a covid treatment during the pandemic. Arthur Allen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025 Ford then provided a link to a Reagan speech in which the late president opposed tariffs. Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for speech
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Noun
  • The best way to silence such talk is on the pitch.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The records obtained by The Star, Kehoe’s internal calendar entries, did not reveal the substance of the governor’s recent talks.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Owing to its appeal and acclaim, Pinjar was translated into eight other Indian and foreign languages, including English.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Features like automatic speech recognition, language translation, and image sorting all use networks of computers.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The festival also aims to raise awareness about climate change through a lecture series and activist events.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The Climate Café lecture series is a free public program designed to share cutting-edge science with the South Florida community.
    Diana Udel, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At play in Gómez’s case is a decades-old immigration law that uses arcane vocabulary.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • These acts of radical playfulness—the inflatable dance parties, the music, the absurdity—have become part of the city’s moral vocabulary.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These middlemen purchased vast troves of information, ranging from phone numbers and home addresses to bank loans and shopping history, leaked by employees of financial institutions, e-commerce companies and other service providers.
    Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Pairing these vehicles with a clear philanthropic strategy ensures your giving addresses root causes and endures for generations.
    William Jarvis, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Italian fashion house reimagined the timeless silhouette popularized in the 1950s with a high-shine gold coin detail and an embossed logo on the tongue.
    Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Many in that group are holding their tongues in public.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His orations of statistics, stories, and argumentative persuasion at colleges were energetic, frictious, and necessary to unshackle us from grievance and tribalism.
    Alex Rosado, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But behind the world’s fastest-growing businesses is a quieter form of leadership—one that privileges operations over oration, systems over showmanship, and execution over ego.
    Brent Gleeson, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But Simeon Silverio, former publisher of the San Diego Asian Journal, said Bayani reflects only one of many Filipino dialects and would fail to represent the country’s diverse cultural groups, each of which has its own word for hero.
    Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Even something as simple as the Chicago dialect and John Gacy’s individual odd, idiosyncratic way of speaking.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Speech.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speech. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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