as in spoke (to or with)
to communicate with by means of spoken words
I had never talked to a real live cowboy before
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Both works addressed precarious conditions and, in the case of The Silver Lake, the hope of saving the future.—
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Swift hasn’t addressed the Charli rumors.—
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Juraj Cintula, 72, shot at Fico five times from just over a 1-meter distance as the prime minister greeted people in the central Slovak town of Handlova in May 2024.—
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21 Oct. 2025
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Medical assistants from Nepal, Myanmar, Somalia, and Afghanistan greeted patients; the average wait time hovered around 10 minutes.—
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21 Oct. 2025
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“Talked (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talked%20%28to%29. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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