SPEAKS Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

speaks

verb

present tense third-person singular of speak

as in says

to express (a thought or emotion) in words finally spoke her fears

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as in talks

to give a formal often extended talk on a subject the Mayanists have been invited to speak about their latest archaeological discoveries

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Recent Examples of speaks Yet El-Sayed speaks about the controversy with something approaching amusement. — Nik Popli, Time, 8 July 2026 Referee François Letexier speaks with the Egypt team Tuesday. — Reuters, NBC news, 8 July 2026 OpenAI Ceo Sam Altman speaks to journalists after meeting with US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2026. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 8 July 2026 This current team, which features Balogun, a handful of military kids raised in the Netherlands and Germany, and a left back who speaks with a slight Scouse accent, will certainly help to expand the fan base. — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 7 July 2026 Teyana Taylor speaks onstage during the ESSENCE Black Women in Music Luncheon in New Orleans on July 5. — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026 The role required fluency in at least three languages—and Blunt, by her own admission, just about speaks Spanish. — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 July 2026 Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR's Ukraine Correspondent Joanna Kakissis about the overnight attack in Kyiv, which comes on the heels of Ukraine's drone assaults in Moscow. — NPR, 2 July 2026 Democratic congressional candidate Melat Kiros speaks to supporters at an election-night watch party after winning the Colorado primary on June 30, 2026 in Denver. — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 2 July 2026

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Israel retaliated with a massive military offensive that has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, Gaza’s Health Ministry says, around half of them women and children.

— Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
The Lodging Association letter, which was written by executive director Fred Tayco, says charging hotels a flat fee could violate Proposition 26’s requirements that fees not exceed the reasonable cost of providing a service.

— David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026

Definition of says

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Knowing that a visitor asked three questions about security, spent time on your enterprise plan and then left without booking a demo tells you everything about what to do next.

— Suyash Karn, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
The film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Bao Nguyen, in part tells the story of how CEO Matt Mullenweg founded what became Automattic, a company rooted in the philosophy of open-source software.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 July 2026

Definition of tells

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Today’s successful downtowns rely on a mix of ingredients, said Steven Falk, the former city manager of Lafayette, who’s served as an interim city executive in Oakland and Richmond and who lectures at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
Bad teams are given mechanisms to recover, not lectures about bootstraps.

— Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026

Definition of lectures

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Halfway through, Mando is captured by Clone Wars’ bounty hunter Embo, who was voiced by Filoni on the show but never utters so much as a single line of dialogue here.

— Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 22 May 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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Ranging from ‘Bottle Rocket’ and ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ to ‘The Phoenician Scheme,’ the filmmaker discusses his distinctive way with needle drops.

— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
In this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses the recent allegations toward Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of discusses

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Collecting is often a function of loss, an attempt to save something that might otherwise disappear, as the volume’s final essay poignantly articulates.

— Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 26 June 2026
Phil Baxter, working minimally with fruit from the renowned Ferrington Vineyard, articulates the skill in his work as knowing what not to do.

— Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026