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as in lectures
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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as in languages
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
Roberts noted that race and citizenship had been fiercely debated in courts, speeches, Congress and battlefields because of Black Americans’ fight for freedom from slavery.
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ABC News,
2 July 2026
After Starmer spoke, several lawmakers in the House of Commons made emotional speeches about their own experiences.
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Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
Then there are swearing in speeches for interim officeholders, like today’s from Rob Harrington.
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Charlotte Observer,
1 July 2026
Richmond Richmond may not have the immediate colonial connotations of some of the other cities in Virginia, but one of the most significant speeches of the Revolutionary era happened right in downtown Richmond.
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Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
1 July 2026
Many people have loved the phrase, but no one loved it more than Ronald Reagan, who used it over and over again in his campaign speeches and his presidential speeches, and most notably in his farewell address in 1989.
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David Frum,
The Atlantic,
1 July 2026
Using 2,500 surviving speeches as source material, Perl-Rosenthal demonstrates that early generations of Americans viewed the Revolution as fragile and incomplete.
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Barbara Spindel,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 July 2026
There have been just 12 speeches and interviews by Fed officials since the June FOMC meeting, including events scheduled through the end of this week, according to strategists at Bank of America.
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Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
1 July 2026
Presidential election year Republican and Democratic conventions are also high-profile television events, drawing tens of millions of viewers as major networks broadcast key speeches.
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Antonio Pequeño Iv,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
ABC News,
2 July 2026
After Starmer spoke, several lawmakers in the House of Commons made emotional speeches about their own experiences.
—
Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
Then there are swearing in speeches for interim officeholders, like today’s from Rob Harrington.
—
Charlotte Observer,
1 July 2026
Richmond Richmond may not have the immediate colonial connotations of some of the other cities in Virginia, but one of the most significant speeches of the Revolutionary era happened right in downtown Richmond.
—
Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
1 July 2026
Many people have loved the phrase, but no one loved it more than Ronald Reagan, who used it over and over again in his campaign speeches and his presidential speeches, and most notably in his farewell address in 1989.
—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
1 July 2026
Using 2,500 surviving speeches as source material, Perl-Rosenthal demonstrates that early generations of Americans viewed the Revolution as fragile and incomplete.
—
Barbara Spindel,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 July 2026
There have been just 12 speeches and interviews by Fed officials since the June FOMC meeting, including events scheduled through the end of this week, according to strategists at Bank of America.
—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
1 July 2026
Presidential election year Republican and Democratic conventions are also high-profile television events, drawing tens of millions of viewers as major networks broadcast key speeches.
—
Antonio Pequeño Iv,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speeches
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Qatar also said technical talks between Iran and the United States are continuing, but there are currently no high-level meetings between the two.
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The Iranian regime’s apparent hesitancy to resume in-person talks is a significant step back from the high-level talks that took place in Switzerland earlier this month following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the countries.
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In recent years China’s Communist Party has ramped up oversight of religious institutions, rolled back the use of ethnic minority languages in primary, secondary schools and kindergartens.
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Among other things, the council revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with other religions and the laity, and allowed Mass to be celebrated in vernacular languages rather than Latin.
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Dani provides the voiceover, filled with strained metaphors about earthquakes and sermons on the importance of summer, but the pretense that the dialogue is taken from his interrogation is quickly abandoned.
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The fracas played out in heated sermons, editorials, and denominational meetings.
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Do the formal vocabularies that are supposed to encode my field actually capture how the people in it think?
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But more variations of Austronesian languages have been identified in Taiwan, accompanied with more intricate grammatical structures and expansive vocabularies, which has provided insights for linguists.
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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.
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Before his assassination at age 39 on April 4, 1968, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate spent a decade giving fearless orations and profound insights that continue to inspire generations, all deserving attention and consideration.
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The results have often left me highly frustrated, but also have given me indescribable joy at the fact of having absorbed (although only partially, of course) some of the elusive beauty of those marvelous, magical, mysteriously alluring tongues.
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The scene when Emily Blunt speaks in alien tongues was deeply spooky.
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In this case, M-Pesa phone numbers and what are known as lightning addresses—a payment spec that lets users to receive bitcoin payments via email addresses.
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Keep screenshots, emails, seller profiles, payment receipts and website addresses.
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On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.
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Out of love for different sound systems, different writing systems, different grammars, different sets of concepts, different idioms, different ways of seeing the world.
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