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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
In a series of speeches, the late reverend’s children, civil rights leaders and two presidents of African nations said the best way to honor Jackson’s legacy is to continue his advocacy for universal human rights and economic justice.
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Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
How to generate more revenue — and the wide differences that exist over how to fund the growth — received less attention at the White House meeting full of big-picture speeches about the perils facing college sports.
—Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
Wherever Lafayette traveled, parades and speeches proclaimed the United States the world’s beacon of liberty.
—Regina E. Mason, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2026
Johnson and Pritzker both gave speeches at Jackson’s funeral service.
—Connor Greene, Time, 6 Mar. 2026
How to generate more revenue — and the wide differences that exist over how to fund the growth — received less attention at the White House meeting full of big-picture speeches about the perils facing college sports.
—ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
Over the years, Larner also wrote speeches for politician Bill Bradley, activist Sam Brown, Paul Newman and Redford, covering topics like the Vietnam War and environmentalism.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2026
For the last year, our team at Peak has developed a minor obsession with speeches in the sports world.
—Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
During the weekend, the honorees receive awards, meet the president, give speeches at State Department dinners, and then conclude at a bipartisan ceremony at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2026
Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
How to generate more revenue — and the wide differences that exist over how to fund the growth — received less attention at the White House meeting full of big-picture speeches about the perils facing college sports.
—Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
Wherever Lafayette traveled, parades and speeches proclaimed the United States the world’s beacon of liberty.
—Regina E. Mason, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2026
Johnson and Pritzker both gave speeches at Jackson’s funeral service.
—Connor Greene, Time, 6 Mar. 2026
How to generate more revenue — and the wide differences that exist over how to fund the growth — received less attention at the White House meeting full of big-picture speeches about the perils facing college sports.
—ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
Over the years, Larner also wrote speeches for politician Bill Bradley, activist Sam Brown, Paul Newman and Redford, covering topics like the Vietnam War and environmentalism.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2026
For the last year, our team at Peak has developed a minor obsession with speeches in the sports world.
—Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
During the weekend, the honorees receive awards, meet the president, give speeches at State Department dinners, and then conclude at a bipartisan ceremony at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speeches
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In 2024, Semafor experimented with a partnership with Microsoft on a news aggregator called Signals, which helped find stories written in non-English languages not easily picked up by English searches.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
4 Mar. 2026
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The magazine appeared in a variety of languages at various points over the ensuing decades, including French, Czech, Slovak, Russian, and Hungarian.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
3 Mar. 2026
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Amodei is in talks with Emil Michael, under-secretary of defense for research and engineering, in a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement on the terms governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's Claude models, the Times reported, citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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The truce, signed in Qatar at the time, was followed by six days of talks in Istanbul, which resulted in an agreement to extend the truce and hold a third round of negotiations in November.—
SUZAN FRASER AND MUNIR AHMED THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
5 Mar. 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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The sheikh had studied religious law at Damascus University and earned a master’s degree in Lebanon; the Tunisian had not completed a day’s worth of religious study in his life, relying instead on YouTube videos and stray sermons.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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Reh delivers sermons in both English and Karenni, helping to make religious services more accessible.—
Kayla Huynh,
jsonline.com,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Those tongues are basically built-in grooming kits.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
27 Feb. 2026
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Perennials like brittlebush, creosote and the little flame tongues of chuparosa are out.—
Roger Naylor,
AZCentral.com,
21 Feb. 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
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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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Like fellow North Carolinians Wednesday and MJ Lenderman—local stars descended from the likes of Lucinda Williams and Drive-By Truckers—Dowdy carves complex new visions into the idioms of his upbringing.—
Jenn Pelly,
Time,
4 Dec. 2025
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In some cases, the department inadvertently released nude photos showing the faces of potential victims as well as names, email addresses and other identifying information that was either unredacted or not fully obscured.—
Alanna Durkin Richer,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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In some cases, the department inadvertently released nude photos showing the faces of potential possible victims as well as names, email addresses and other identifying information that was either unredacted or not fully obscured.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Speeches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speeches. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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