speak
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"This lets us speak about safety and efficacy with real confidence," Dr. Fleckenstein said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Families speak about the healing power of nature and how some have created dedicated green spaces at home.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Richmond Fed’s president, Thomas Barkin, will speak at 1 p.m., and the monthly U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Jane Campbell, a peer in the House of Lords upper chamber, struggles to speak naturally due to spinal muscular atrophy, a condition that worsens over time.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Friends provided Corrie a “retirement” house in Orange County, California, but of course, even bedridden and for the last five years unable to speak, Corrie never stopped witnessing to God’s love.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
It also speaks to Antares’s preference for companies that aren’t reinventing the wheel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
“I think that honesty in System of a Down and that honesty in the songwriting and the lyrics and the band still speaks to people,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
But Parisian pupil Kaspar, 15, speaks of his fear when coming face-to-face with police in full riot gear.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Everyone speaks as though an unseen conductor is calling out, “Allegro!” or someone accidentally pressed the 1.5x speed button in their throats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Crick’s monotone voice speaks through the comm unit connected to our corpomonitor, “Depart the shuttle, Zeta unit.”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Thus spake one of the world’s most powerful men this week, after he gained more power still.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022
Thus spake Martin Luther King Jr. at the end of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2020
Thus spake Zarathustra He humbly said you listen to me and choose for yourself.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2016
And Gibran spake, It is a misprint for The Profit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2010
From all about, the roar of cannons and shouts of orders reached our ears; the water itself which nestled the hull spake of the battle.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
She wasn’t sure if it was a scam until they spoke on the phone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Many victims we spoke to told us they had also been hit hard by a rise in their car insurance premiums.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Papernot, who has signed an open letter with recommendations for policymakers, spoke to AFP about why AI makes these attacks harder to stop.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Times spoke to two CEOs of other organizations that aid people escaping domestic violence in the L.A. area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
I was about to risk sticking my head round the corner of the alleyway when Hugo spoke again.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
And those are just the ailments he and the Dodgers have spoken about publicly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Carrey had spoken about his affinity for solitude even earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The director has repeatedly spoken about planning to retire from movies after making 10 films.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Coissac said he had spoken to one survivor of the wreck who came from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, where rebels are battling the federal government in a recent flare-up of violence.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
I have spoken to other people in the community, and they support saving the coyote.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
I’d been baptized and raised in a mainstream Kentucky Protestant church, but my father had shared childhood stories of snake handling and speaking in tongues in his Pentecostal Appalachian congregation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
People with the disorder may develop seizures, lose previously acquired developmental abilities, experience increasing difficulty walking or moving, and struggle with speaking or swallowing.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
What sort of pleasure do you get from performing things you’ve written, as compared to speaking other people’s words, or panel shows, where you’re just going off the top of your head?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
But speaking to CBS news programme Face the Nation on Sunday, the DHS secretary rejected these concerns, and insisted the risks had been considered.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Orion was chasing other dogs around, while Llewelyn was speaking Wild to the birds in the gazebo.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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