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as in lectures
a usually formal discourse delivered to an audience
the guest of honor gave a short speech in appreciation of the award
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as in languages
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 speeches
Trust is not built through speeches or press conferences.
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Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
Attendees, including some who had been chosen as convention delegates in the previous week, lined up to talk them after after the speeches.
—Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
Some of the most memorable speeches in American history have been delivered in wartime, with presidents seeking to unify the country, explain their strategy and, often, make a moral case for war.
—NPR, 3 Apr. 2026
Harris, 61, recently announced plans for a series of speeches to Democratic Party events across the Deep South, which insiders say could be just the first of many appearances designed to gauge and rally support.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
As speakers began addressing the crowd, one counter protester continually shouted through the speeches.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
Ever since, Norman has become an unlikely, late-in-life activist, delivering speeches, doing media interviews, and lending his voice to the fight to preserve the legal bedrock of birthright citizenship.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
Cross-dressing was prohibited, as were speeches that mocked or questioned the party’s prudish, pro-family, heteronormative views on gender and sexuality; traditional German culture was to be celebrated, not mocked.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 1 Apr. 2026
La Follette gave one of his famed speeches there.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
Attendees, including some who had been chosen as convention delegates in the previous week, lined up to talk them after after the speeches.
—Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
Some of the most memorable speeches in American history have been delivered in wartime, with presidents seeking to unify the country, explain their strategy and, often, make a moral case for war.
—NPR, 3 Apr. 2026
Harris, 61, recently announced plans for a series of speeches to Democratic Party events across the Deep South, which insiders say could be just the first of many appearances designed to gauge and rally support.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
As speakers began addressing the crowd, one counter protester continually shouted through the speeches.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
Ever since, Norman has become an unlikely, late-in-life activist, delivering speeches, doing media interviews, and lending his voice to the fight to preserve the legal bedrock of birthright citizenship.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
Cross-dressing was prohibited, as were speeches that mocked or questioned the party’s prudish, pro-family, heteronormative views on gender and sexuality; traditional German culture was to be celebrated, not mocked.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 1 Apr. 2026
La Follette gave one of his famed speeches there.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speeches
Noun
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The underclassman enjoys learning languages, baking and coaching swimming.—
Tyler McManus,
Boston Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
7 Apr. 2026
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The countries are to hold talks this week on cementing the truce, which each hailed as an unalloyed victory.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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During the regular session budget talks stalemated largely on the overall size of the spending plan.—
News Service Of Florida,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2026
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In the October 2025 study that followed families over time, children who spent more time with digital media at age 2 tended to have smaller vocabularies at age 3, regardless of the child’s temperament or the caregiver’s personality traits.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Teams were asked to learn new interfaces, adopt new vocabularies, and take responsibility for outputs whose behavior remained probabilistic rather than deterministic.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Kish won’t use magic during sermons.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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This was evident in the themes of his sermons.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Olympian figure skater Alysa Liu has been on the tip of everyone’s tongues, following her two gold medal wins at the 2026 Winter Olympics.—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
30 Mar. 2026
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The sediment close to their roots can be as sweet as fruit nectars or tree sap, although to human tongues the mud tastes overwhelmingly of salt and decay.—
David George Haskell,
Big Think,
27 Mar. 2026
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Before his assassination at age 39 on April 4, 1968, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate spent a decade giving fearless orations and profound insights that continue to inspire generations, all deserving attention and consideration.—
Lydia Price,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
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His orations of statistics, stories, and argumentative persuasion at colleges were energetic, frictious, and necessary to unshackle us from grievance and tribalism.—
Alex Rosado,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If the assignment is to translate something from a foreign language, there are plenty of tools and resources that can do it for you, including by recognizing and figuratively translating idioms.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
25 Mar. 2026
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Those books introduced me to a vision of American teenage life and taught me the rhythms and idioms of American English, nuances that would later replace my Britishisms and shape my career as a journalist.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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The class action suit against Google, filed last week by a plaintiff with the pseudonym Jane Doe, alleged that the company's AI Mode created its own summaries and links, exposing Epstein victims' personal identifying information (PII), including names, phone numbers and email addresses.—
Jennifer Elias,Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
3 Apr. 2026
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For nearly a year, the DOJ has been making unprecedented demands for sensitive voter data from most states — including voters' driver's license numbers, partial Social Security numbers, dates of birth and addresses — that some say violate privacy law.—
Jude Joffe-Block,
NPR,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Speeches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speeches. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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