prepared speech

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The hologram did not just deliver a prepared speech.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

“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 skipped reading a prepared speech for a meeting with European rabbis this month because he had a cold, but he appeared to be in good health during a meeting with children hours later.

From Reuters • Nov. 26, 2023

In his prepared speech to the rabbis, Francis said his first thought and prayers goes “above all else, to everything that has happened in the last few weeks,” a clear reference to the Oct.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 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