SAYS Synonyms: 176 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of say

as in tells

to express (a thought or emotion) in words why don't you just say what's on your mind?

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as in expresses

to convey in appropriate or telling terms I'm not quite sure how to say this, but that's the worst essay I've ever read

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as in recites

to give from memory say your prayers

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reads

as in assumes

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof let's say, for the sake of argument, that this is true

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noun

plural of say

as in shares

the right to express a wish, choice, or opinion even if they decide otherwise, at least I had my say

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Recent Examples of says

Verb

Ruiter says teachers often provide materials that aren't covered by school budgets. — Tori Mason, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026 Wednesday, Warren police got a 911 call reporting a man lying on the ground outside an apartment in the 900 block of Halligan Street, the release says. — Rafael Escalera Montoto, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2026 Iran is finalizing a deal with Oman for the movement of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, but a deal between the two coastal nations does not mean the waterway will reopen, Tehran says. — Todd Symons, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026 But Leiters says there’s no reason to wonder if the electric 718 will make it to production or not. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2026 It was instead caused by cold air plummeting to the ground from the upper levels of a passing thunderstorm, experts says. — Mark Price july 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026 And Brooks says that there’s actually more to the story, because a few weeks earlier Shai had said that Ariana was looking particularly cute. — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 30 July 2026 The Education Department says Anne Arundel County Public Schools violated federal law by declining to give parents information about their child’s use of a personal pronoun. — Kendall Staton, Washington Post, 29 July 2026 Stacie Dusetzina, a professor of health policy at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, says while the subsidies were never meant to be permanent, ending them now is concerning. — Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 29 July 2026

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The idea, Was says, was to focus on Weir’s songs and the characters in them rather than on the jammy side of the Dead. — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2026 It was given a 60 percent chance of cyclone formation through seven says—a 10- percentage-point increase over the previous day. — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025 But today, the 42-year-old says, time would be better spent studying a more niche topic intertwined with AI, like AI for biology—or maybe not a degree at all. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2025

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Here are seven of the biggest eclipse myths – and why the science tells a very different story.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Each piece is highly detailed and whimsical, and tells a personal story.

— Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of tells

Verb

Her promise expresses, in some way, her kinship with her unmarried aunt, who didn’t trade her own freedom for a set of good knives.

— Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026
Payne, a close graduate school friend who previously spoke with Fox News Digital, shares new photos of Brooke from their grad school years and expresses growing frustration over the lack of progress in the investigation nearly two months later.

— Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of expresses

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The board last week passed a budget plan that assumes the $150 million will be coming and relies upon it, despite no promise from Springfield that it can be covered.

— Lauren Victory, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
The Defense Department said in its estimate the cost assumes there will be an average of 2,500 National Guard members in Washington through January 2029.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of assumes

Noun

Analyst Kendall Toscano said in a recent note that Ralph Lauren shares are too attractive to ignore at current prices.

— Michael Bloom, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2026
Instead of a broker or a third party wrapping someone else's shares in an offshore vehicle, the company issues its own instrument on chain, inside its own jurisdiction, as a regulated security.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of shares

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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
Yet Cornelius Krull, the patriarch, speaks only a German dialect and never utters more than two words.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 14 May 2026

Definition of utters

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Another shoe will drop for SpaceX this week when close to a billion shares held by insiders can be sold for the first time on Thursday, which traditionally puts downward pressure on newly IPOed company stock prices.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Nick Mitchell is a slap-hitting outfielder who doesn’t chase or whiff much but has no power and puts the ball on the ground a lot.

— Keith Law, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of puts

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Pan believes San Francisco is rebounding from its post-pandemic downturn, driven by AI growth.

— Russell Flannery, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Whatever happens, Spoelstra believes the Heat is already in a good spot even after missing out on future Basketball Hall of Famer LeBron James.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026