as in speaking out
to voice one's opinions freely with force
got in trouble for spouting off in class in a disrespectful way
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Medical experts are speaking out after the president's speech, trying to slow the snowball of misinformation.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025 -
This is not Affleck's first time speaking out on the issue.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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Selena Gomez, Olivia Rodrigo and hundreds of other artists are speaking up after Jimmy Kimmel Live!—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
22 Sep. 2025
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As free speech becomes a hot-button issue in the wake of Charlie Kirk‘s assassination, one of his colleagues and close friends is speaking up for his interests.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Better to spend your time shouting out the writing that makes your heart sing.—
Maris Kreizman
September 25,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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Posts by the group to social media appear to show TSU students shouting at its members, filming them and following along as campus police escorted them off campus.—
Rachel Wegner,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Sep. 2025
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Sexton, Lee says, elevates the whole environment and Sexton and Ball are really building a rapport and talking up a storm together a lot after practice.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Sep. 2025
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Spanish sales agents flip that the other way round for France, talking up more broader audience plays, quite a few these days genre pics, genre’s consolidation as a theatrical proposition, bound for Sitges.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
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Younger Republican voters and GOP contrarians are piping up to challenge the broad consensus in the Republican Party that has been in lockstep with policy on Israel.—
Kristina Karisch,
The Hill,
19 Aug. 2025
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That mood that was most certainly shared by the audience members experiencing a wide array of emotions (from dancing to crying) thanks to the combination of excitement and nostalgia.—
Josh Chesler,
AZCentral.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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In front of reporters, the agent grabbed the crying woman by the arms before shoving her to the wall and then downward.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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There were clearly plenty of struggles, leading to the Buccaneers' signal caller sounding off on the issues.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
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For the writers pictured here, engaging with culture isn’t a hobby or a sideline or a way of sounding off.—
Richard Renaldi,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Smollett, who is gay and Black, claimed that two men had attacked him while yelling racist and homophobic slurs outside of his apartment building in Chicago.—
Stephanie Wenger,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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Cutting off other vehicles and honking out of anger is up from 2016, while tailgating and yelling at other drivers is down, according to AAA.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Spouting (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spouting%20%28off%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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