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Synonyms for utterance

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Synonyms for utterance

the act or an instance of expressing in words

the use of the speech organs to produce sounds

the faculty, act, or product of speaking

something said

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Synonyms for utterance

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'We must, therefore, shun the disruptive and divisive utterances and actions emanating from some unpatriotic quarters lately.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Thursday summoned Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko for questioning regarding utterances he made against Nairobi Woman Rep Esther Passaris over her unpaid per diem for a trip she made to New York, USA.
Back to Kenya and two recent utterances puts a lot into perspective.
In a statement in reaction to a tweet of Maryam Nawaz, she said such utterances from the patrons of Gullu Butt was a cruel joke.
Adviser to Chief Minister Sindh on Information, Law and Anti-corruption, Barrister Murtaza Wahab on Tuesday reacted to the Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz ul Hassan Chohan statement for his utterances with regard to Hindus and Kashmiri people and has demanded that Mr.
"The first concerns directly statements or utterances made by two deputies in the Dail.
KARACHI -- Adviser to Chief Minister Sindh on Information, Law and Anti-corruption, Barrister Murtaza Wahab Tuesday reacted to the Punjab Information Minister Fayaz ul Hassan Chohan's statement for his utterances with regard to Hindus and Kashmiri people and demanded that Chohan must tender an unqualified apology to our Hindus and Kashmiri brothers and sisters.
To effect this move, Potts (2007) draws on earlier work in relativist semantics, and in particular the work of Peter Lasersohn.9 Potts's proposal is that expressive utterances should be modelled by an ordered pair <s,c> of the sentence uttered s with a context of utterance c, which is a series of parameters c = <[a.sub.c], [l.sub.c], [t.sub.c], [w.sub.c], [j.sub.c], [[epsilon].sub.c]>, such that [a.sub.c] is the agent of c, [l.sub.c] is the location of c, [t.sub.c] is the time of c, and [w.sub.c] is the world of c.
The transcript was studied so that T and V utterances were identified and grouped to two subcorpora.
Botswana has accepted US citizens within her borders over the years and continues to host US guests and senior government officials, including a Congressional delegation that will come to Botswana at the end of this month; that is why we view the utterances by the current American President as highly irresponsible, reprehensible and racist.
Conversational sentences within the selected texts were extracted and attributes of the speaker (name, gender, occupation) and listener (name), relationship between the speaker and listener, and situations (e.g., family, office, criminal investigation) were manually added to each utterance. A total of 5632 utterances from 100 Japanese novel texts were tagged.
The Mean Length of Utterance in words (MLU-w) is a measure of expressive language development in children frequently used in clinical practice (23), calculated through dividing the number of words produced by a child by the total of intelligible utterances (24).
Likewise, understanding how the interlocutors to whom utterances are directed influence the written productions of children will contribute to our investigation.