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speeches

noun

plural of speech

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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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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 These include rising bond yields, recent hawkish speeches, three July dissents from Fed policymakers and energy pricing remaining generally elevated. — Simon Moore, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026 Decisions on matters such as war, citizenship, exile and capital punishment were made in the assemblies and courts, where citizens heard contending speeches and voted immediately afterwards. — Richard Yanowitch, Mercury News, 29 July 2026 Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Vice President JD Vance delivered speeches before Graham’s casket, which was draped with an American flag. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026 Normally, Fed officials drop enough hints during speeches and interviews that Wall Street has a pretty good sense for what will happen. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 28 July 2026 Elise Devlin has three important lessons from last weekend’s Hall of Fame speeches. — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 28 July 2026 Emanuel would regularly tell Fauci that the doctor was leaving money on the table by not producing more books, giving more speeches and consulting on or starring in more TV shows and films. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 July 2026 His celebration of life included speeches from his family members as well as Logan Paul, Ethan Klein, Diplo, Aaron Mercury and more. — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026 Dozens of community members attended to watch the ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday morning, where project leaders and investors gave speeches before patrons could tour the first and second floor of the building. — Julianna Mejia july 24, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026

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Ryan is a keynote speaker who gives talks on leadership, culture, and personal excellence.

— Big Think, Big Think, 5 Aug. 2026
In addition to the gallery program, ARTnews will present the Art Week NYC Hub, with a full slate of live interviews, panel discussions, artist talks, and other editorial programming to be announced in hte coming months.

— Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 4 Aug. 2026

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Local players globally are building AI-native products on local rails, in local languages, with local licenses and with local context, years before that attention arrives.

— Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Lawmakers in New Zealand have passed a bill to make English one of the country’s official languages.

— Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026

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Not like brushing shoulders with Lil Baby and Lil Yachty is a musical death sentence (Veeze is still tearing it up), but for a rapper who specialized in free-flowing street sermons, that slight touch of formalism and structure depletes the vibe.

— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 29 July 2026
Of the manuscript's six sermons, two were previously unknown.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026

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This requires deployment at the edge, integration into proprietary data pipelines, fine-tuning for domain-specific vocabularies, and compliance with local data sovereignty laws.

— Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
This gap can help explain why some children’s vocabularies grow so much faster than others.

— Michelle Kearney, The Conversation, 7 July 2026

Definition of vocabularies

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Afterward, the orations turned to internal divisions, particularly those related to slavery.

— Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
The greatest of all Fourth of July orations was delivered in 1852, on the 76th anniversary of American independence, by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026

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Children separated from their families were taught, sometimes violently, not to speak their native tongues, and many did not pass them on to their children.

— Kadin Mills, NPR, 26 July 2026
But today’s linguistic diversity may be only the shadow of a time when humans conversed in 10 times as many tongues.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 July 2026

Definition of tongues

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On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
The film’s look is inspired by ink wash paintings and wood blocks, moving fluidly between different visual idioms.

— Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026

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