as in aloud
with one's normal voice speaking the words
registered their dissatisfaction with the meal out loud to the waiter
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Recent Examples of out loud
Somebody just needed to be willing to say it out loud.
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Louis Mosca, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Comedy often flows from saying the uncomfortable bit out loud.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 27 May 2026
Practice your answers out loud, using specific stories from your own experience.
—Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026
Some people in the audience laughed out loud.
—Nick Hanauer, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
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Louis Mosca, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Comedy often flows from saying the uncomfortable bit out loud.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 27 May 2026
Practice your answers out loud, using specific stories from your own experience.
—Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026
Some people in the audience laughed out loud.
—Nick Hanauer, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for out loud
Adverb
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While questioning a potential juror on impartiality, the man informed the court that a woman who had already been questioned was outside the courtroom playing a news story about the case aloud on her phone.—
Nikiya Carrero,
CBS News,
3 June 2026
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His senior class’s first assignment was to write a three-page personal narrative and read it aloud.—
Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Adverb
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Navratilova has been publicly out since 1981 and spent decades advocating for gay rights.—
Dan Zaksheske OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
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What is a better visual metaphor for being a woman in America than the sight of Patricia (Kate O’Flynn) tearing through the streets of Widow’s Bay, shrieking for help and finding none, while an out-of-shape freak stalks her and somehow manages to catch up to her?—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
3 June 2026
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“Out loud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/out%20loud. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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