SAYS Synonyms: 176 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

Definition of says next

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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says

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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

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Mid-cap play Roger Lee, head of equity strategy at Cavendish, says mid-cap stocks could offer value if oil prices continue to fall, as lower energy prices ease pressure on inflation and interest rate expectations. —

Alex Buckmaster,michael Considine, CNBC, 5 June 2026 Congress has not authorized construction of a memorial arch on the federal land managed by the National Park Service, which Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group, says is a first step required by statute before the government can move forward with construction. —

James Powel, USA Today, 5 June 2026 Bonner — whose son Sean, who took his own life in 2018 while in college a little more than two years after graduating from Charlotte Latin School — says distress often eventually reveals itself in some form, even if the warning signs differ dramatically from person to person. —

Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 4 June 2026 As a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to spread, an aid organization says trust is key to beating back the virus. —

Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 4 June 2026 Shepard says he was stunned to hear what happened. —

Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 4 June 2026 Beer has the shortest shelf life (weeks to months), followed by wines (months to years), and then spirits (years to indefinitely), says Lanuzza. —

Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 29 May 2026 After multiple struggles, the music icon says in the teaser for his new interview with Good Morning America's Chris Connelly that his health has improved. —

Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026 The middle manager jobs would likely be in the city’s Communications Department and Performance and Analytics Department, the proposal says. —

David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 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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Netflix tells Variety the game will be updated daily throughout the World Cup with new challenges and features tied into the real events and results of the tournament.

— Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 June 2026
Navalny tells the story of Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader whose poisoning by Putin operatives in August 2020 nearly killed him.

— James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026