as in speaking out
to voice one's opinions freely with force
got in trouble for spouting off in class in a disrespectful way
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And now, Mamdani wants to silence the people who live there from speaking out, because our stories don’t belong in his anti-landlord narrative.—
Renee Collymore,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2026 -
Cury, in an interview with THR ahead of the doc’s world premiere, discussed her motivation for bringing Scarlet Girls to the world, finding brave women speaking out about their experience, and the backlash against women’s rights in various parts of the world.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Mar. 2026
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The bigger repercussion of not speaking up is losing yourself.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2026
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While leaders debate the State of the Union this week, student advocates like me are speaking up for the State of the Kids with Save the Children Action Network.—
Letters to the Editor,
Hartford Courant,
12 Mar. 2026
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Romero could be seen shouting at his team-mates after Julian Alvarez gave Atletico a 3-0 lead.—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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Residents in several neighborhoods have been protesting at night as the capital has been plunged into darkness, banging pots and pans and shouting anti-government slogans.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
11 Mar. 2026
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Banijay was last week talking up its AI capabilites after merging with All3Media.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
11 Mar. 2026
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But talking up those benefits, like reminders of plastic’s role in medicine, is a way of focusing attention on its positive uses while ignoring the many wasteful ones.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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Younger Republican voters and GOP contrarians are piping up to challenge the broad consensus in the Republican Party that has been in lockstep with policy on Israel.—
Kristina Karisch,
The Hill,
19 Aug. 2025
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The audience was crying and laughing so hard, and that’s the balance Andrea struck so effortlessly.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
15 Mar. 2026
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Our sound guy was crying holding up the boom mic.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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Now Harwich Select Board members are sounding off against the tax, arguing that the measure wouldn’t solve the region’s housing crisis, but rather, increase the Cape’s cost of living.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
3 Mar. 2026
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In what's become an annual rite in Rhode Island, consumers are once again sounding off about the state's high winter utility costs.—
Alex Kuffner,
The Providence Journal,
16 Jan. 2026
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Putting an exclamation point on that thought with a scene of Carol yelling at a group of joggers to get out of the way while listening to a self-motivation audiobook makes her character assassination feel heavy-handed this early on in the seven-episode run.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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Sunday after police responded to a report of gunshots and a person yelling for help at the park, which is in the 2600 block of Asilomar Drive.—
Harry Harris,
Mercury News,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Spouting (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spouting%20%28off%29. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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