as in aloud
with one's normal voice speaking the words
registered their dissatisfaction with the meal out loud to the waiter
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Recent Examples of out loud
Conversations, texts and day-to-day interactions are revealing more than what’s being said out loud.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
He was also refreshingly unbothered by her success and visibility, and grounded enough to say so out loud.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 4 May 2026
Perhaps, as more and more people on the right echo white-supremacist rhetoric, some lawmakers might actually just start saying the thing out loud, and the courts will have to act.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
After spending so much of the last episode shouting the theme of the season out loud, this episode seems to abandon it completely.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 1 May 2026
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
He was also refreshingly unbothered by her success and visibility, and grounded enough to say so out loud.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 4 May 2026
Perhaps, as more and more people on the right echo white-supremacist rhetoric, some lawmakers might actually just start saying the thing out loud, and the courts will have to act.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
After spending so much of the last episode shouting the theme of the season out loud, this episode seems to abandon it completely.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for out loud
Adverb
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Shyanne wonders aloud why Margo would do the one thing she was told not to do.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
20 May 2026
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The wrong names were being read aloud at the ceremony, just outside Phoenix.—
Jude Joffe-Block,
NPR,
20 May 2026
Adverb
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All products featured in Spanx’s AirEssentials line are made from the same lightweight, out-of-this-world-soft spacer fabric.—
Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
20 May 2026
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After Will Smith flew out, Max Muncy worked a full count and took a slider near the outside corner that was called strike three by home plate umpire Rob Drake.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
20 May 2026
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“Out loud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/out%20loud. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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