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as in talk
a usually formal discourse delivered to an audience
the guest of honor gave a short speech in appreciation of the award
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as in language
the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication
wanting to develop a writing system for his people, Sequoya created a system of 86 symbols representing all the syllables of Cherokee speech
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Meta-morphosis Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024.
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Michele Luhn, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
President Biden postponed a speech in Joshua Tree due to the intense conditions.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
What to watch: The speech is already becoming a subject of some local controversy.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
Biden’s speech has now been shuttered, at least for the time being, I’m told.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
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Michele Luhn, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
President Biden postponed a speech in Joshua Tree due to the intense conditions.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
What to watch: The speech is already becoming a subject of some local controversy.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
Biden’s speech has now been shuttered, at least for the time being, I’m told.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
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An Israeli official briefed on the talks confirmed the deal to NBC News.Natasha Turak,Christina Wilkie, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
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Negotiators are aiming to clinch an agreement on the final details of a ceasefire in Gaza by the weekend after marathon talks in Qatar, with mediators and negotiators from Israel and Hamas both saying a deal was closer than ever.Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 15 Jan. 2025
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Part of the reason behind that was to control for differences between morphologically rich languages, where a single word may correspond to multiple words in morphologically simple languages.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2025
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Some 240 people work there in various tech startups, AI incubators and food science labs, conducting research and business in at least 14 languages.Ann Abel, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Participants can learn about police operations, practices and objectives through lectures, interactive discussions and hands-on demonstrations, a news release said.Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
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New ways need to be developed for easily producing more compelling video lectures so more people can take part in flexible or hybrid learning.Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Gone will be the complex vocabulary that has often kept these issues in the hands of technical teams.Andrew Fingerman, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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At Notre Dame, the Irish use similar vocabulary and techniques on defense and special teams.Matt Baker, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Letters may be up to 200 words and signed with your email address, city of residence and daytime phone number for verification.Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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By then using the legitimate PayPal payment request feature and using this list as the recipient address, everything looked completely legitimate.Davey Winder, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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The watch is powered by the in-house caliber 115, a hand-wound movement that boasts a 10-day power reserve and a unique non-linear power reserve indicator shaped like a snake's tongue.Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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The solution, an electric current sent to your tongue, is downright weird.PCMag Staff, PCMAG, 9 Jan. 2025
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On last night’s CNN’s New Years Eve Live with Cohen and Anderson Cooper, Fiennes dropped by to plug his acclaimed new film Conclave, but, per an agreement with Cohen, provided a bit of oration by reciting the viral TikTok advice from beauty influencer Jools Lebron.Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
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The rest needed little exaggeration: the property had a massive stone that George Washington once gave spirited orations from; clusters of money were said to be buried in the backwoods.Nicolette Polek, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
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The body of water first showed up on European maps in the 1500s and has had at least 32 names in different languages and dialects throughout the years.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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Much of the driving dialogue is in Irish, and most importantly, in the Ulster dialect.Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Speech.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speech. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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