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told

Definition for told

adjective as in announced

adjective as in explained

Strong matches

elucidated, interpreted, related

adjective as in mentioned

adjective as in numbered

adjective as in oral

adjective as in professed

Strongest match

stated

adjective as in rumored

Strongest match

reputed

Strong matches

broadcast, bruited, circulating, gossiped, prevailing, said

adjective as in spoken

adjective as in stated

Strongest matches

certain, declared, fixed

Strong match

settled

Weak match

regular

adjective as in verbal

Strongest matches

rhetorical, unwritten

Weak matches

exact, expressed, lexical, lingual, literal, oral, phrasal, said, stated, verbatim, word-for-word, word-of-mouth

adjective as in warned

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Example Sentences

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One teenage boy from Sheffield, who says he has taken knives to school, told us: "I just felt like I need to protect myself."

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In addition, as of Wednesday night, Hamas had not yet received the final list of Palestinian prisoners that Israel plans to release in exchange for the hostages in Gaza, a Palestinian source told the BBC.

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“He was a really great guy,” Wolfgang Welch, general manager of nearby Vanity nightclub, told Gazetteer.

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A senior White House official told CBS, the BBC's US news partner, that "our assessment is that hostages will begin getting released on Monday".

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In his Instagram post about the incident, O’Keefe alleged that a friend of the woman who scolded his manner of sitting told him, “You’re not the minority anymore.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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