speech

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the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication wanting to develop a writing system for his people, Sequoya created a system of 86 symbols representing all the syllables of Cherokee speech

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Recent Examples of speech As part of his speech, Arison thanked O’Neal, Spoelstra, Heat general manager Andy Eligburg and Heat fans, and highlighted the Big 3 era featuring Bosh, James and Wade. Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025 Wearing a letterman’s jacket, Travis stopped to collect his emotions several times throughout a 7-minute speech. Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025 And the words, while sparse, move together with pauses and spaces to form a musical, entrancing pace or rhythm, one that is distinct from everyday speech and which the reader must be willing to follow. Brian Robert Moore september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025 A little more than five years ago, Vice President Mike Pence gave a rousing speech in Alabama, setting a goal of landing humans on the Moon by 2024 and laying the political groundwork for the Artemis Program and all that has followed. Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for speech
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Noun
  • The railroad’s willingness to pay the bill, including slimming down its own office payroll to free up more funds, appears to have limited the reputational damage enough for serious merger talks to proceed on down the tracks.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • However, the reality is that peace talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the US and Europe are clearly stalled, if at worse dead with many contentions from both sides surrounding security concerns and, importantly, trade sanctions.
    Earl Carr, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The language was tacked on in a last-minute amendment just before the legislature adjourned for the 2024 session.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Various exemptions for the requirement include having certain disabilities, having less than three years of formal English language learner instruction or receiving intensive support.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At an early lecture of Alaoui’s, one silent member of the audience seems unusually intent on his words.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Each lecture in the series is free for Birch Aquarium members and $12 for non-members.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For decades, BCIs were limited to toy demos and small vocabularies.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • There was a clear vocabulary to define consent within OneTaste, but one witness after another spoke of pressure and powerlessness.
    Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • His approach addresses gaps that hospice care often doesn’t.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Hazony, in his opening address, gave a more charitable assessment.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, with all the tail- and tongue-wagging joy our little friends get from tagging along comes some risk.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
  • All the characters speak English, in either British or vaguely European accents, lifting Assayas from the burden of getting his actors to speak in a Russian tongue and helping to widen the casting net for one of his starriest ensembles.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But behind the world’s fastest-growing businesses is a quieter form of leadership—one that privileges operations over oration, systems over showmanship, and execution over ego.
    Brent Gleeson, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But Churchill did more than compose and deliver memorable orations.
    Robert Schmuhl, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • It is written in an almost stream-of-consciousness style, rather like someone reluctantly dredging up their memories, with random thoughts interrupting the narrative, long sentences sometimes running to over a page, little punctuation, and peppered with Kobe dialect.
    Ginny Tapley Takemori September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The Cajun dialect is a very particular one.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025

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