prepared speech
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"We have to do better, we must do better," vowed Mr Fletcher, who cast aside his prepared speech when he stood under a canopy facing rows of Sudanese women and children, clapping and ululating.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024
“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say, ‘Look what they did then’; rather, ‘what we do now,’” Glazer said, reading a prepared speech.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
Francis made the comments to explain why he chose not to deliver a prepared speech to visiting charity workers for Eastern rite churches.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
Deviating from his prepared speech, Francis spoke about a homeless German man who recently died, “alone, abandoned,” under the colonnade circling St. Peter’s Square, where homeless persons often sleep.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
At the formal welcoming ceremony, the mayor delivered his prepared speech as though nothing unusual had happened.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
