as in aforementioned
mentioned previously
with said guidebook in hand, we set off to explore the city
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as in told
to express (a thought or emotion) in words
why don't you just say what's on your mind?
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as in expressed
to convey in appropriate or telling terms
I'm not quite sure how to say this, but that's the worst essay I've ever read
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as in assumed
to take as true or as a fact without actual proof
let's say, for the sake of argument, that this is true
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Recent Examples of said
Kiana Murden, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
Don't breathe down their necks while waiting on said lull, either; rather, observe from a distance until the coast is clear.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024
An said party staff and protesters had piled furniture and heavy objects against the revolving entrance door to block soldiers from accessing the building.
—Ivan Watson, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
Your skin doesn't always need the fluff, especially when it's irritated from said fluff (or the blistery winds outside).
—Sarah Han, Allure, 2 Dec. 2024
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Hers, described as a rich moisture balm, is a mix between an ointment and an emollient face cream, delivering instant hydration via five molecular weights of hyaluronic acid and skin-barrier-strengthening ceramides, then trapping in said moisture with murumuru butter and polyglutamic acid.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
Don't breathe down their necks while waiting on said lull, either; rather, observe from a distance until the coast is clear.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024
An said party staff and protesters had piled furniture and heavy objects against the revolving entrance door to block soldiers from accessing the building.
—Ivan Watson, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
Your skin doesn't always need the fluff, especially when it's irritated from said fluff (or the blistery winds outside).
—Sarah Han, Allure, 2 Dec. 2024
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In addition to Reelz’ On Patrol: Live, his duties at ABC News and his aforementioned Sirius XM radio show, Abrams serves as CEO of Mediaite and the Law & Crime Network.Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 20 Dec. 2024
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For salary-matching purposes, the aforementioned combination of Huerter and Lyles is a legal deal if one to occur between Brooklyn or Washington.Evan Sidery, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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This wouldn't be the first time an owner learned their cat's gender was different from what they were originally told.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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Every night the lamb would cry, and be told to hush, for its bleats disturbed their sleep.Karen Zautyk, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
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Other linguistic features once assumed to be universal—such as tenses, personal pronouns, and even, potentially, a distinction between nouns and verbs—have turned up missing when greater numbers of languages have been scrutinized.Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Some cognitive scientists have assumed that all humans, whatever their local quirks, reason about time using spatial metaphors, yet at least one language, Tupi-Kawahíb, evidently lacks any mapping between time and space—not left to right, back to front, or downhill to uphill.Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Staff from New Hampshire Public Radio talked to everyone, from roadtrippers to small business owners, state park workers, and local university students.Natalie Escobar, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
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As part of his teaching, the court heard that Westwood talked to one teenager, who was raped, about a masturbation scene from Bridgerton.Jake Kanter, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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When Newsweek reached out to Vito's Pizza for comment, an employee stated that the boss was unavailable.Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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In an essay published in The Wall Street Journal, the two business leaders stated their desire to slash costs through executive orders rather than legislative action.Doug Criscitello, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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The Italian American Christmas Eve tradition is believed to have originated with immigrants from southern Italy who missed the abundant seafood of the area.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
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Greenland's natural resources include gold, silver, copper and uranium and there's believed to be significant potential for oil in the waters off the territory.Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 24 Dec. 2024
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Well, that’s just not a common word uttered by the holidayers dressed in designer kaftans.Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
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Not a word of condemnation has been uttered by the Western mainstream media, none whatsoever.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Alba articulated every track on that album with an emotional delivery that was perfect.Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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This view was famously articulated by Alfred Adler, who saw ambition as the inability to be satisfied with one’s achievements, or the ability to remain always dissatisfied with them.Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Said.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/said. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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