utterances

plural of utterance
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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 His public utterances will brim with courtly niceties, and with legal and ecclesiastical arcana. Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026 Like a number of Love’s utterances, this one seemed accidentally perfect. Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026 Iranian state media dutifully report the movements and utterances of most senior officials. Tim Lister, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026 One of the most enduring presidential utterances of the 20th century was also a bald-faced lie. Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 June 2026 Speaking time per person was calculated by summing the duration of each of their utterances and excluding silent gaps. Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2026 For one last time, here’s the Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz — with excerpts and utterances from May 17 to 23. Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 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
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Noun
  • Gloria Steinem, voice for women's rights, dies Gloria Steinem, the journalist and activist who became one of the leading voices of the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s, has died.
    Robert Abitbol, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The answer is to not passively accept what is given but to organize to make our voices heard.
    Torie Bosch, STAT, 5 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Reputation risk asks what assumptions, statements or future behavior of that influencer could become attached to the company.
    Sindhu Bhaskar, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Musk’s public profile and statements have driven major valuation boosts in companies like Tesla and SpaceX, but Gibney argues his claims are often out of sync with facts or evidence.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The actors speak quietly, as if fearful of being overheard, whether or not there is anyone around to hear, and often regard one another with pained or stunned expressions.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Two circular eye screens display expressions while a separate main screen handles information and direct interaction.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • She’s casually seated on a couch, soft-spoken, and sometimes pausing to search for the right words in English.
    Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 5 Sep. 2026
  • These are all words written by the men caught by Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator, the mid-2000s reality TV hit that staged sting operations to nab adults who wanted to have sex with minors.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • But, following the busy summer driving season, many refineries go into September and October planning to undergo maintenance, reduce their outputs, and switch to churning out winter-grade fuel formulations.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The outlet reported that Coca-Cola and Pepsi differ somewhat in their formulations.
    Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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“Utterances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/utterances. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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