Thesaurus results for SPEECHES

speeches

noun

plural of speech

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a usually formal discourse delivered to an audience the guest of honor gave a short speech in appreciation of the award

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the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication wanting to develop a writing system for his people, Sequoya created a system of 86 symbols representing all the syllables of Cherokee speech

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Recent Examples of speeches The limits of burying the bad news Each of these interventions, whether reckless, self-destructive trade barriers, massive military invasions, or offensive divisive speeches, soaks up attention. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 7 Oct. 2026 Seven of the 19 Alito speeches published in the book were delivered to Catholic groups. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026 Members deliver speeches disguised as questions, trade insults with witnesses, and grandstand for social media. — David Wippman, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026 The Hands Off Our Vote rally on Sunday was meant to mobilize voters and also featured speeches from Robert De Niro and Mo Amer. — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026 To keep her own bias in check, Iyer prompted Claude to pick statements from the candidates' own speeches or from their official websites. — Maham Javaid, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026 In another series, in another era, those developments might have led to teachable moments and inspiring speeches, and the most bittersweet beats of the series are the ones that suggest how a happier ending could have come to pass. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026 Next week’s economic data flow is also light, but there’s lots of Fed officials giving speeches. — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026 Basically, what Thiel’s doing in his Antichrist speeches is portraying our current predicament as an existential battle between good and evil. — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026

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The meeting came as indirect talks between Washington and Tehran have yet to yield meaningful progress.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Bibb claimed the group is also in talks with members of Congress about aligning their agendas.

— Isabella Murray, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

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The expansion will also introduce new catalogs in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and more, with more than 120 languages in total.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026

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The services were led by the Lighthouse Church’s senior pastor, Kevin Tuck, a former chaplain and police officer, who delivered fiery sermons in contemporary clothes.

— Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
People of faith often embraced his work, and preachers sometimes cited it in sermons.

— Courier Journal staff, Louisville Courier Journal, 1 Sep. 2026

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Yet a 2023 Stanford study said that Pangram was biased against non-native English speakers, who might have more limited vocabularies, and many AI researchers contend that such detectors are unreliable.

— Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Chinese law schools have accordingly placed greater weight on teaching Chinese students to argue using the vocabularies of foreign legal systems.

— Mark Jia, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026

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Afterward, the orations turned to internal divisions, particularly those related to slavery.

— Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
The greatest of all Fourth of July orations was delivered in 1852, on the 76th anniversary of American independence, by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026

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The President of the United States (John Goodman) and his cabinet of hawkish generals, gargoyle-ish officials, and speaking-in-tongues spiritual advisors gather at the oilman’s house to discuss next steps.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2026
Some Republicans are no longer holding their tongues about their concerns with Collins or his campaign.

— Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of tongues

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There are always critics in all idioms whose goal is writing about something much bigger using a review to get there.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Cinema is, after all, a language, and Belgian filmmakers come from a country built on the need to understand language as a bridge—between its regions, its people, and its idioms.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026

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