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Recent Examples of well-spoken And your leadership needs to create conditions where everyone—not just the well-resourced or well-spoken—can thrive. Aparna Rae, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025 True as that might be, Alex is white, pretty, and well-spoken. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025 In many such films, Naveen (Karan Soni) would be the most desirable of matches for a female protagonist: good-looking, well-spoken and a working doctor. Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024 These kids are kind, well-spoken, talented and clever. Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023 Shotwell is a former high school cheerleader who is trained as an engineer but lacks their nerdiness, instead she has been described as smooth and well-spoken. Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for well-spoken
Adjective
  • Emery is more articulate than many, and debating the fairness of the current system is a worthy endeavour, but even that snippet was rooted in a generous interpretation of ‘good management’.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • How Context Engineering Creates Business Value Without context engineering, even the most advanced models behave like articulate interns with amnesia.
    Jared Bowns, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The rom-com canon receives a meaty and eloquent addition thanks to the acclaimed cast, consisting of Nicole Beharie, André Holland, and DeWanda Wise.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Even the man who wrote eloquent romantic soliloquies that have endured centuries still royally pissed off his wife on the regular.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Prince Harry and his father, King Charles III, have reunited amid the royal family's estrangement from the outspoken prince.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Lucy Liu has been quite outspoken in recent years, calling out the unjust treatment of women and the paucity of roles for non-white actors in Hollywood, and advocating for the rights of children through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), among other relevant topics.
    Brett Berk, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But on the Vevo Studios stage, the boy band sensation get the chance to deliver a fully immersive vocal performance.
    Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The Puerto Rico native has been vocal about ICE over the past few months, sharing footage of an ICE arrest on social media in June that appeared to show agents detaining people in the street.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025

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