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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 party figure I phoned was completely unaware the party had changed chief executive before I told them.

From BBC

King Charles III has made a special visit to the world's oldest person, who told him she remembered "all the girls were in love with you and wanted to marry you".

From BBC

"We are a family, we are one unit, we cannot be separated", she told the BBC, speaking as a military plane flew over her tent in Khan Younis.

From BBC

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr told right-wing podcast host Benny Johnson.

“Violence that is rooted in gendered issues is a huge predictor of — and possibly the biggest predictor, in some studies — of trajectories that lead to mass violence,” Miller-Idriss told The 19th.

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

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