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as in talks
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 tongues
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
The day will end with a state banquet, during which both the king and president will make speeches.
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Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
Then comes the multi-course banquet at St George’s Hall, complete with toasts and speeches, beneath a ceiling decorated with the coats of arms of every single Knight of the Garter since the order was founded in the 14th century.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
Craft Your Presentation As A Speech The most compelling and memorable presentations are actually speeches.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Bold proclamations In speeches, Anthropic leaders offered bold claims about the future of AI.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
The truth is, there is rarely a Merritt Wever or an Adrien Brody in awards speeches—extreme cases of brevity or verbosity that stun both those in the room and at home.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
There was a real-time counter onscreen illustrating how much money was being deducted from the total donation during speeches, which led to fewer memorable speeches overall and seemed especially insensitive during moments of emotional or political sincerity.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Industry events are often staid affairs, full of long-winded speeches and by-the-numbers performances.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
During speeches, Broadway directors and actors reflected on their time in the rehearsal studio and in the industry, with longtime director Jerry Zaks, who led the recent Hello, Dolly!
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
Then comes the multi-course banquet at St George’s Hall, complete with toasts and speeches, beneath a ceiling decorated with the coats of arms of every single Knight of the Garter since the order was founded in the 14th century.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
Craft Your Presentation As A Speech The most compelling and memorable presentations are actually speeches.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Bold proclamations In speeches, Anthropic leaders offered bold claims about the future of AI.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
The truth is, there is rarely a Merritt Wever or an Adrien Brody in awards speeches—extreme cases of brevity or verbosity that stun both those in the room and at home.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
There was a real-time counter onscreen illustrating how much money was being deducted from the total donation during speeches, which led to fewer memorable speeches overall and seemed especially insensitive during moments of emotional or political sincerity.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Industry events are often staid affairs, full of long-winded speeches and by-the-numbers performances.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
During speeches, Broadway directors and actors reflected on their time in the rehearsal studio and in the industry, with longtime director Jerry Zaks, who led the recent Hello, Dolly!
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speeches
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Israel hit Doha, Qatar, an ally that has been hosting peace talks, neutralizing the president’s effort to persuade Hamas to accept terms for a ceasefire.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
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The news also doesn't change Boeing's status as a key bargaining chip in trade talks.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
12 Sep. 2025
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This matters because chameleons hunt by ballistically launching their tongues like slingshots, using a tapered bone in their throat as a ramp.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
10 Sep. 2025
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Launching on 16th October, 2025, the bubblegum pink sculpture features two entwined tongues, forming a surreal, dancing figure at the entrance of the iconic Brutalist gallery.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
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For decades, BCIs were limited to toy demos and small vocabularies.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Wicks’ sermons tend toward the extreme fire-and-brimstone, vengeance-is-mine variety.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Sep. 2025
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As a result, Jud gets sent to a small-town church, Our Lady of Perpetual Grace, which the resident priest, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), has run into the ground with his fiery sermons.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
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For millennia, human brains adapted to local environments, languages and cultural practices.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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SonyLIV’s 2025 slate spans multiple languages with 25 original series across Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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Meanwhile, analytical software has revolutionized linguistic inquiry, enabling greater understanding of the ways language works—when, how, and why words break out; the specific contexts for expressions and idioms.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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These systems can interpret regional slang, idioms and context-specific expressions, hence minimizing both over-censorship and under-enforcement.—
Anees Ali Khan,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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This classic game modding technique uses specific RAM addresses as communication channels.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Nowadays, these routes and addresses can sometimes call to my mind the Camino Real—the old Spanish road lost and buried but commuted upon daily—or that mythic expanse of the Mediterranean where Odysseus lost his way and people live and work to this day.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Speeches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speeches. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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