noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a passionate speech
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Senator McCarthy delivered a powerful and passionate speech.
a speech defect (= an incorrect way of saying certain sounds )
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He had a speech defect which made it quite difficult to understand him.
a speech of welcome
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The Mayor made a brief speech of welcome.
a speech pattern
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Computers are now able to produce acceptable speech patterns.
direct speech
figure of speech
free speech
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We would all support the principle of free speech .
freedom of speech/expression (= the legal right to say what you want )
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We will defend freedom of speech and oppose censorship.
give a talk/speech/lecture
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He’s giving a talk on early Roman pottery.
impromptu speech/party/meeting etc
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The band gave an impromptu concert.
indirect speech
keynote speech/address/lecture etc
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He is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at an awards ceremony.
part of speech
reported speech
slur your words/speech
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She was slurring her words as if she was drunk.
speech day
speech impediment
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a speech impediment
speech impediment
speech marks
speech synthesizer
speech therapy
the power of speech
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I was so surprised that I momentarily lost the power of speech.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
free
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Strauss alleged that this was an infringement of his absolute privilege of free speech and as such was a contempt of Parliament.
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Limitations on rights Articles 19 and 20 allow certain limitations to be placed on the right of free speech .
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In my view the appellant's argument founded on free speech is without merit.
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We support free speech and all.
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The hostile reception of Alford's views led him to reflect that he was being denied the parliamentary right of free speech .
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The flag nonsense violates First Amendment free speech protections.
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What is disturbing is that it is typical of a new intolerance against whistle-blowers that raises serious questions about free speech .
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This has become almost as sacred as the first amendment right of free speech .
long
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Before the guillotine motion, the longest speech in those proceedings was by the then Minister of State.
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Each board member gave a long speech , and some gave two.
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Note: This does not mean monopolizing the tutorial with long speeches .
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He made a long , rambling speech to Republicans across town about drugs and diabetes, rape and morality.
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It was a long speech , too, by a politician who never pretended that speech-making was one of his top assets.
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There is no need to make a long speech , though.
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It had been a day of long speeches and waiting, and the crowd of forty thousand people was restless.
maiden
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Al Gore falls asleep as he makes maiden speech as Vice-President; no-one notices - they're all asleep too.
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One of the startling omissions from the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Langbaurgh was any mention of Teesside development corporation.
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I was making my maiden speech , which is traditionally a somewhat nerve-wracking experience.
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But for a maiden speech , by tradition, everyone keeps absolutely silent and no one is allowed to interrupt.
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Or to congratulate me on my maiden speech ?
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She told him that it was her intention to make her maiden speech at the conference.
major
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In a recent major speech , Mbeki cautioned that national transformation and democratic stability were far from assured.
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A major speech had to be delivered.
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In recent months he has made two major speeches in Parliament on the subject.
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He was planning later in the week to make three major speeches , and he would need to conserve his energy.
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In the midst of his Abdication preoccupations Baldwin made one major speech on another subject.
union
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Clinton, in his election-year State of the Union speech , resurrected some of the middle-class themes of his 1992 campaign.
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Clinton is expected to address budget issues in his State of the Union speech Tuesday, and he presents his budget Thursday.
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State of the Union speeches are mandated by the Constitution.
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Never had a president heard an opposition speaker following his State of the Union speech .
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Indeed the Republican response was far warmer than perhaps any of his previous four State of the Union speeches .
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acceptance
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His acceptance speech , made on the following evening, was well delivered but generally perceived as lacking in detail.
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In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech , Claude Simon also considered marginalized writing to be subverting totalitarian political control at least implicitly.
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Both Dole and Kemp will be officially nominated Wednesday night and will deliver their acceptance speeches Thursday night.
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Still, it was superior to the acceptance speech delivered by Clinton two weeks later in Chicago.
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Although Dole began working on his acceptance speech in the spring, he was making changes as late as last night.
community
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But in previously unexplored speech communities , we do not have reliable social intuitions either.
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This resentment of others' rejection of our kind of talk is found in speech communities everywhere.
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At this superficial level, different kinds of speech community shape can be readily distinguished.
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Hence, for example, in Habermas it is a speech community which reflects through language primarily on social or ethical norms.
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In mastering word meanings, children must learn the conventional meanings they carry within the speech community .
impediment
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I kept silent, thinking that he might have an embarrassing speech impediment .
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He also had a speech impediment .
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Communicating: problems experienced by handicapped people or those suffering from lack of confidence or a speech impediment . 9.
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A speech impediment did nothing to stop him from preaching.
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He had a nervous twitch and a speech impediment .
keynote
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This report contains three keynote speeches on commissioning, carrying out and disseminating research.
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The conventioneers did not care that her 30-minute keynote speech was largely nonpartisan.
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Mr Kinnock intends to reinforce his conviction that Labour is in a position to win in his keynote speech tomorrow.
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Vice President Al Gore will be on hand to give a keynote speech .
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Susan Molinari of New York, who will deliver the keynote speech .
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Jobs and his onetime partner Steve Wozniak are scheduled to join Amelio on-stage during his keynote speech .
recognition
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Jelinek took individual words as the states in his Markov model for speech recognition .
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Continuous speech recognition and synthesis are additional examples of tasks neural networks are undertaking with reasonable success.
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Despite a large amount of research into automatic speech recognition the results have been unimpressive.
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Areas such as vision, continuous speech recognition and synthesis, and machine learning have been hard.
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A commonly used argument in favour of speech recognition is that it is the most natural communication medium.
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Possible applications are continuous speech recognition and commands to robot arms.
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Our first aim was to examine the lexical access components of a number of existing speech recognition systems.
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What you hear will incorporate high-fidelity sound, speech synthesis, and speech recognition .
therapy
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They combined domestic, personal care, and specialist skills, taught by other professionals, such as physiotherapy, or speech therapy .
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I was never in speech therapy .
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For the past 18 months Norman has had intense physiotherapy and speech therapy to maximise the use of muscles he can move.
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Mthough there is some evidence that this recovery is hastened by speech therapy , it may also occur without any therapy.
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Additional physiotherapy, occupational and speech therapy services.
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Because of his language difficulties, his kindergarten teacher had quickly referred him for speech therapy to help him articulate certain sounds.
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After the surgery Donal had speech therapy and felt able to do some work.
■ VERB
deliver
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In 1782 he had delivered a pretty effective speech in the legislature at Boston against ratification of the Consular Convention.
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John delivered a funny little speech .
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Fidel Castro delivering speeches in the fields and plazas.
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They campaigned for Hardaway while the Adelman ticket delivered a persuasive stump speech .
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After receiving an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, she delivered her speech in a mature and confident manner.
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Susan Molinari of New York, who will deliver the keynote speech .
give
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They also appear slightly more confident and enjoy leading groups, giving speeches and presentations.
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Government officials do not have to give speeches to business leaders telling them that it is important to export.
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Mr Baldwin, the Prime Minister, who was there, also gave a speech .
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Each board member gave a long speech , and some gave two.
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I've never given a speech in my life before.
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Pete Magowan should have brought Clark back to give stump speeches about the horrors of Candlestick.
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Over the intro Gary would always give his little speech , very quietly - almost to himself.
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Then she throws it out and keeps just an outline in front of her when she gives the actual speech .
hear
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The Cabinet as a whole will have to wait until Wednesday morning to hear about the Budget speech .
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A visit from you without hearing you give a speech ?
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It seemed that he had not heard Garland's little speech but his gaze came round eventually.
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Did you hear that speech tonight?
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You don't want all the wedding party to have heard the speech in advance of the wedding.
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The journalists, many of whom had heard the speech before, paced in the background waiting for something new.
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We speak as we hear speech .
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Many women who heard her speech got tested for the virus and became active in promoting awareness about the disease.
make
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He came over and pushed for McGovern to our delegation and made a big speech about what a great guy Daley was.
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The chief bridesmaid, if she is not making a speech , can then lead the call for a speech.
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The President, therefore, should journey somewhere to make his foreign-policy speech on that date.
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I had to make a speech which a priest translated into Sesotho.
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I am sure that he will seek to make his own speech in the debate.
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Twenty-four backbenchers took part in the debate, most of them making speeches opposed to the Bill.
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Rose made a front-of-curtain speech begging the audience's indulgence.
write
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But he goes back a lot further - writing key speeches in Number Ten during the Heath government two decades ago.
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But in her writing and speeches Shaughnessy did not dwell on this problem; perhaps that was a necessary part of salesmanship.
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I just think that you're wasting your time writing letters, making speeches , sending out all those pamphlets.
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Sartain said she writes out a new speech word for word and then types it herself.
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He had wanted to be alone while he wrote tomorrow's vital speech to the Conservative conference.
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Some one to write speeches and type correspondence.
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She has probably written her speech already, but I hope that she will include these points in her reply.
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He is too young to have covered Kennedy, but he wrote speeches for President Carter and is a certified political junkie.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
compose a letter/poem/speech etc
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His movements were slow, his gaze abstracted, as if he were composing a poem in his head.
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Me and my sore back composed a letter to Martina.
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Presumably Mira is composing a poem, counting the syllables as she walks.
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She began to compose a letter in her head, then rejected the idea.
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The trainee is expected to compose a letter and a memo from short notes provided.
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Then he turned over the piece of paper and composed a letter to his wife, Olga.
deliver a speech/lecture/address etc
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All the staff of the company director delivered a speech.
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But the spectre of delivering a speech brown-nosing the teachers jammed her imagination.
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Fidel Castro delivering speeches in the fields and plazas.
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It wasn't Rudy intention to play the role of the Gipper or deliver an address like Lincoln at Gettysburg.
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Mr Delors was at the London School of Economics, less than a mile away, delivering a lecture.
maiden speech
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Al Gore falls asleep as he makes maiden speech as Vice-President; no-one notices - they're all asleep too.
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But for a maiden speech, by tradition, everyone keeps absolutely silent and no one is allowed to interrupt.
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I was making my maiden speech, which is traditionally a somewhat nerve-wracking experience.
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One of the startling omissions from the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Langbaurgh was any mention of Teesside development corporation.
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Or to congratulate me on my maiden speech?
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She told him that it was her intention to make her maiden speech at the conference.
speech recognition
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A commonly used argument in favour of speech recognition is that it is the most natural communication medium.
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Areas such as vision, continuous speech recognition and synthesis, and machine learning have been hard.
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Continuous speech recognition and synthesis are additional examples of tasks neural networks are undertaking with reasonable success.
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Despite a large amount of research into automatic speech recognition the results have been unimpressive.
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Indeed, in the later chapters we will show that this is impractical for any relatively unconstrained speech recognition system.
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Noisy Environments: speech recognition is made difficult if interference is created by noisy machinery or extraneous conversations.
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Possible applications are continuous speech recognition and commands to robot arms.
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What you hear will incorporate high-fidelity sound, speech synthesis, and speech recognition .
stump speech/speaker
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Clinton does not include his pro-choice stand in his standard stump speech, either.
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Confronted by the realities of office, even young men forget the carefree promises of the stump speech.
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His strident 30-minute stump speech was interrupted only a couple of times with polite applause.
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No soap box, no stump speech, no calling out, in a beer-barrel voice, to hit the bricks.
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Pete Magowan should have brought Clark back to give stump speeches about the horrors of Candlestick.
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They campaigned for Hardaway while the Adelman ticket delivered a persuasive stump speech.
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Voinovich, 59, is described as a roll-up-the-sleeves fiscal manager and a good stump speaker.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wedding speech
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Her speech was slow and distinct.
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His speech was slurred and he was having trouble standing straight.
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In her speech , Bauer proposed major changes in the welfare system.
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Natalie was born with a slight speech impediment.
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She left early to write her speech for the next day.
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The left side of the brain controls speech .
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The senator's speech on farm subsidies did not attract a large audience.
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To start with, the governor made a short speech welcoming the visiting dignitaries.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And there had to be freedom of speech and publication, for without these the freedom of association is of no use.
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Because of its application to both speech and writing it has helped to obscure the difference between the two.
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For him, it was a speech .
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His deafness was a severe handicap in an assembly where quickness of hearing and readiness of speech were essential.
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Ingram reported that for children with phonological disorders, imitation tasks lead to fewer errors compared to spontaneous speech .
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Only when the speech had turned Jeffries into a disastrous image problem had the university acted.
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The most significant aspect of my hon. Friend's speech was the reference to his predecessor, George Buckley.
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What you hear will incorporate high-fidelity sound, speech synthesis, and speech recognition.