give voice to
idiom
formal
: to express (a thought, feeling, etc.) to someone
Therapy allowed her to give voice to her fears.
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Marian Turski survived Auschwitz and returned to his home in Poland to give voice to fellow victims of the Nazis and their collaborators.
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Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Warding off the evening cold with a fire, the guards give voice to widespread anti-Iran sentiment in Syria, as more and more crimes of the regime – for so long propped up by Iran – are revealed each day.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
All that was missing was a grand unifying theory — a vocabulary to give voice to these intense cultural frustrations and draw a legitimizing connection between them and the Constitution.
—Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
The creative mostly works as a photographer but feels that film is a more appropriate medium to give voice to the Poles living on Holocaust sites.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
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Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Warding off the evening cold with a fire, the guards give voice to widespread anti-Iran sentiment in Syria, as more and more crimes of the regime – for so long propped up by Iran – are revealed each day.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
All that was missing was a grand unifying theory — a vocabulary to give voice to these intense cultural frustrations and draw a legitimizing connection between them and the Constitution.
—Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
The creative mostly works as a photographer but feels that film is a more appropriate medium to give voice to the Poles living on Holocaust sites.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
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