statements

plural of statement
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as in bills
a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due received a statement from the plumber in the mail

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as in voices
an act, process, or means of putting something into words a careful statement of the legal case before the court

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Recent Examples of statements The hospital system didn’t say that it was being dropped over a specific policy, and an insurance trade group pointed to the high cost of specialty care for children in a response to the hospital’s statements. — Jack Harvel october 25, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026 Investigators were working to gather evidence and statements and to review available audio and video related to the incident, including video taken from multiple perspectives, police said in a Facebook post. — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026 Rumors have swirled about a new album from collaborators who quickly backpedaled on their statements. — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026 Recent posts on Ben-Gvir’s social media accounts, along with statements issued through Netanyahu’s and Likud’s official channels, have raised questions about whether the two remain fully aligned. — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026 The prosecution has not disclosed whether the suspect has made incriminating statements in the case. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026 Putin’s statements, in an interview with Kremlin journalist Pavel Zarubin broadcast late Thursday, doubled down on his claims to territory in Ukraine that Russia invaded and illegally annexed in 2022. — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026 According to court documents and statements made in court, in March 2020 Congress passed legislation that sought to mitigate the economic harm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026 The legal demand Friday is for the organizers of the 2028 Summer Olympics to disclose more information about the organization’s finances — including bank statements. — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for statements
Noun
  • Shapiro told Semafor that he’ll be focused on passing a few specific items if his party wins full control of the government — not a parade of progressive bills, as Democrats in some swing states have done after winning the legislature.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Nella said absorbing the new out-of-pocket costs will force her to divert money from family savings toward medical bills just to keep her daughter healthy.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a three-time presidential candidate and one of Mexico's most important modern political voices, died Wednesday at 92, said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Each begins with drums pounding out a rhythm, often featuring a teetering syncopation, while more voices add their own frayed melodies.
    — Vanessa Ague, Pitchfork, 29 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The developments are part of Neuralink’s experimental brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, which translates neural signals associated with intended speech into words.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Locals and visitors alike have taken her words to heart ever since.
    — Laura Hall, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Review your financial accounts regularly Check your bank statements, investment accounts, retirement accounts and payment apps for unfamiliar transactions.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Early accounts of grassroots democracy in India describe how higher-caste landowners controlled the votes of their lower-caste dependents, sometimes even marking ballots that the voters had to authenticate with their thumbprints.
    — Asim Ali, Time, 24 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • There is not enough evidence on the effects of ingesting large amounts or highly concentrated clove formulations, especially for people who are pregnant or nursing.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026
  • There is not enough evidence on the effects of ingesting large amounts or highly concentrated formulations, particularly for people who are pregnant or nursing.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Criminals can use that information to create convincing phishing messages or impersonation scams.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Even when users aren’t sending messages, Duet’s background checks eat into their quota.
    — Wen Shao, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Two days later, the custodian provided nine documents and forwarded 11 emails from the city clerk.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Wallace hid the theft by making false entries in the church’s digital bookkeeping records, the agreement and other court documents said.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • But his series of expressions and poses are just riotously funny.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Subjects rated the differing facial expressions on warmth and trustworthiness.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

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“Statements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/statements. Accessed 30 Oct. 2026.

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