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• n  the utterance of intelligible speech
• n  delivering an address to a public audience
• v  express in speech
• v  exchange thoughts; talk with
• v  use language
• v  give a speech to
• v  make a characteristic or natural sound
• a  capable of or involving speech or speaking
  human beings--the speaking animals
  a speaking part in the play

• During the G-8 summit in Italy in July, Gaddafi said Switzerland "is a world mafia and not a state," adding that the Italian-speaking part of the country should be returned to .
• Now Mel Gibson will appear in a brief spot on this Sundays Oscar broadcast speaking another exotic tongue: Maya.
• SAY WHAT? Does it sometimes seem that the 74 English-speaking countries are separated by a common language? Encarta has created the first world English dictionary.

• speech production
• public speaking
• speechmaking
• oral presentation
• talk
• speak
• utter
• mouth
• verbalize
• verbalise
• address

• nonspeaking

News & Articles

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• Deluxe Social Media App Uncovers the Secret Identities of America's Small Business Owners
  Strictly speaking, small business owners may not be superheroes, but, like their caped colleagues, they do have secret identities.
  June 17, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• President-Elect of Iran Talks of Easing Tensions With U.S.
  Speaking for the first time since his election victory, Hassan Rowhani called Iran’s nonexistent ties with the United States a “wound” that must be healed.
  June 17, 2013 - New York Times
• Speaking tour
  PHOTO BY PAT GAIETTO Daoud Nassar describes the conditions at his farm in Palestine to a gathering at Hope Lutheran Church in Fostoria Friday. The Christian farmer is finishing a speaking tour at U.S.
  June 15, 2013 - The Advertiser-Tribune

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in USA Today
  By the time I'm finished speaking ...... more Americans will have lost their health insurance,Obama told members of Congress. "Millions will lose it this year. Our deficit will grow. Premiums will go up. Co-pays will go up. ...... I will...
• Joe Barton in UPI.com
  I'm speaking now totally for myself,Barton said. "I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, in this case, a $20 billion shakedown : ."
• Mark Cavendish in The Associated Press
  I'm really happy,he said. "I'm speaking better today because I was pretty emotional yesterday."