Thesaurus results for UTTERANCES

utterances

noun

plural of utterance

as in voices

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 statements

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

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Recent Examples of utterances Here’s the Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz, this time with excerpts and utterances from February 15 to 21. —

Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026 There are a few inarticulate screams and sobs but no dialogue, no lyrics, no spoken intro, no utterances at all. —

Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026 These and other similarly odious utterances—questioning the Holocaust, celebrating Hitler, frequently using the N-word—meant that Fuentes was no stranger to criticism from fellow right-wingers. —

Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026 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 Are there individual cells in the language network that respond to certain utterances, akin to how concept neurons only respond to specific concepts? —

Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025 There were a few words or phrases that Live Translation didn't catch or misunderstood, but the gist of most utterances was caught and accurately translated. —

Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025 Some of their utterances are just indiscriminate broadcasts, but certain species use quiet tones to target a limited set of listeners, or even an individual. —

Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025 No instances of previous utterances are inquired about. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025

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Its loudest voices are making evidence-free claims about COVID-19, climate change, and vaccines.

— Noubar Afeyan, Time, 9 Mar. 2026
The voices captured on that wall belong not to emperors or senators, but to lovers, laborers, sports fans, and artists who left their marks in a corridor between two theaters, never imagining those marks would still be read 2,000 years later.

— Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 9 Mar. 2026