as in oral
made or carried on through speaking rather than in writing
the students are required to write two papers and take a viva voce examination
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Adjective
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Their oral immunization, called RotaTeq and delivered as a series of sugar-sweet drops to infants, would ultimately be licensed in 2006.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026 -
The drug also worked better than a placebo and outperformed Amgen’s oral drug Otezla.—
Ed Silverman,
STAT,
6 Jan. 2026
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The incident comes six months after Richardson was arrested and charged with fourth-degree domestic violence assault after a verbal altercation with her boyfriend, fellow runner Christian Coleman, allegedly turned physical.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
30 Jan. 2026
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The assignment is to sit there and talk about it in public and possibly embarrass yourself by getting into a verbal confrontation in front of a restaurant of otherwise uninterested bystanders.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Viva voce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/viva%20voce. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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