BLURTS Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

blurts

verb

present tense third-person singular of blurt

as in proclaims

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Standing before her guards, the increasingly dictatorial ruler proclaims herself as the Chosen One to the people of King's Landing.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026
Across 45 recipes — each its own kind of breadcrumb-naming treatise — the duo proclaims how versatile the kitchen staple both is and can be.

— Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 8 June 2026

Definition of proclaims

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Every few weeks, another headline announces that artificial intelligence has matched a doctor, beaten a doctor, or is finally ready to become one.

— Arya Rao, STAT, 19 Aug. 2026
If that was not confusing enough, the calendar remains shrouded in uncertainty until only a few weeks before the first match of each campaign, when the PCB belatedly announces the fixtures.

— Ahsan Iftikhar Nagi, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of announces

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Below that line, oil can only be legally released if the President formally declares a severe domestic or international energy supply emergency.

— Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
The Counter View On GitHub Before anyone declares a changing of the guard, look at what the adoption data will show over the next two quarters.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of declares

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Eve Babitz wrote about them, too, in a way that speaks to me now, as an adult and a creative in Los Angeles.

— Sarah Batcha, Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026
And he’s trained by Clint Parks, who has worked with numerous past SDSU players and regularly speaks highly of the program’s developmental capacity.

— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of speaks

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In Japanese, the hero utters the name of the series to a villain in a parting one liner.

— Gene Park, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2026
At the film’s end, Abbie Cornish as Fanny hears secondhand about Keats’s death and utters a cry that is almost too much to bear — a cry that feels too real.

— Sarah Chihaya, Vulture, 16 July 2026

Definition of utters

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