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 Last month, the Economist used Pangram to analyze parliamentary speeches, finding that 10% of the words spoken in the British Parliament were drafted with AI. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026 Trump, at this point, was not the rebel candidate who first showed up in Youngstown 10 years ago, with rally speeches about the threat of mass Muslim immigration. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2026 Native Americans celebrate their centuries-long history of resilience with ceremonies, dances and speeches. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 Those three gave short speeches in a 50-minute program led by the Golf Channel’s Lauren Thompson. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026 But Fox evidently doesn’t think his speeches are worth showing in full right now, which speaks volumes about this political moment. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026 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 Members deliver speeches disguised as questions, trade insults with witnesses, and grandstand for social media. — David Wippman, Washington Post, 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

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Noun

Trump has since tried to find an off-ramp to the war in Iran, but Israel’s actions made such peace deal talks thorny.

— Chad de Guzman, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
CineGouna Emerge in turn is a strand of El Gouna’s CineGouna industry program alongside the Forum talks lineup, Funding project showcase, Market and new Series focus.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of talks

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Looking ahead to 2027, Quijote welcomes co-development opportunities across territories and languages, with no geographical or linguistic boundaries.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
The students also perform songs in multiple languages and are preparing to compete against choirs from around the world in Barcelona.

— Kaicey Baylor, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026

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Bakker offered upbeat sermons and Tammy Faye, charismatic and always wearing her trademark heavy mascara, sang.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
The show was based around chats with guests and Christian entertainers, with Bakker offering upbeat sermons and Tammy Faye singing.

— Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of sermons

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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

Definition of vocabularies

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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

Definition of orations

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Also a list of the true names and addresses of all former slaves, along with their actual occupations and 1858 yearly incomes, which, surprising no one, were right on par with the incomes of similar whites.

— George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Watch for unexplained web addresses, encoded strings or commands that download and immediately execute remote scripts.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of addresses

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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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