Thesaurus results for UTTERANCE

utterance

noun

ˈə-tə-rən(t)s

as in voice

an act, process, or means of putting something into words many writers have used poetry as a means to give utterance to their deepest thoughts

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as in statement

something that is said celebrities whose every utterance is treated as though it were newsworthy

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Recent Examples of utterance Across the continent, among allies that usually tread carefully in responding to utterances from the White House, the response was immediate and emphatic, and recognized an existential threat to the transatlantic alliance. —

Tim Lister, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026 An argument over the appropriateness of the scene between Chase and Brown allegedly included an utterance of the N-word by Chase, which led to Brown storming off the set. —

Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025 Then the language network parses that, finding familiar chunks in the utterance and using them as pointers to stored representations of meaning. —

Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025 The slopverse simply expands that situation—and massively, down to every utterance. —

Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for utterance

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Claassen bears an uncanny resemblance to Head and has re-created her voice and mannerisms to perfection.

— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026
Chayefsky was originally dubbed a voice-of-the-common-man scribe with a serious control-freak streak and, after his 1950s character study Marty became a sensation on both small and big screens, enough clout to enforce it.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2026