speechifies

verb

present tense third-person singular of speechify
as in speaks

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  1. speaks
  2. announces
  3. proclaims
  4. broadcasts
  5. talks
  6. advertises
Verb
  • Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes speaks at a vigil Monday, a day after the Bite of Seattle food festival shooting at Seattle Center.
    — Joe Kottke, NBC news, 31 July 2026
  • Judge Nicholas Primm speaks during the sentencing hearing of Colin Gray, father of Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, at Barrow County Superior Court on Thursday, July 30, 2026, in Winder, Ga.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 30 July 2026
Definition of speaks
Verb
  • The Social Security Administration usually announces the next year’s COLA in October, after inflation data for July, August and September is finalized.
    — Jason St. Angelo, USA Today, 29 July 2026
  • The house, in places, still announces exactly when it was built.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of announces
Verb
  • But no longer, according to a new analysis, which proclaims that the long American sellers’ market has finally ended.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • Across 45 recipes — each its own kind of breadcrumb-naming treatise — the duo proclaims how versatile the kitchen staple both is and can be.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 8 June 2026
Definition of proclaims
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  • Last summer, Lake tried to demote Abramowitz to a job at a remote site in North Carolina, which broadcasts to Cuba.
    — Marc Fisher, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
  • The module then converts the message into a radio signal and broadcasts it to other nodes.
    — Lesya Lapina & Sergey Hyugge, The Dial, 21 July 2026
Definition of broadcasts
Verb
  • Despite that, when Bezos talks, a lot of people pay attention.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 July 2026
  • Each week Bloomberg's award-winning reporter Akshat Rathi talks to the people tackling climate change — venture capitalists, scientists, politicians who have created climate laws, and CEOs who have transformed their businesses.
    — Anjali Chaudhry, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of talks
Verb
  • Who the actress is playing has been kept a total mystery, a rarity for the type of movie that often advertises its villains as much as its heroes.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • And though the natural gas industry advertises gas stoves as being better for cooking, participants in our study preferred their electric stoves.
    — Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
Definition of advertises
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