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"ref": "2006, Staff of Vault, The College Buzz Book, page 176",
"text": "This definitely speaks to the fact that at Georgetown, beginning at the admissions process, you're not a number but a real person.",
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"ref": "2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7",
"text": "Leaving aside the abundance of negativity for the time being, in aggregate these attempts at definition speak to the multitude of linguistic phenomena characteristic of language hybridity in multilingual settings, albeit explained with differing emphases by different definers.",
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"(idiomatic) To give evidence regarding something; to attest or provide evidence for; to bespeak."
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"word": "osoittaa"
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"sense": "to give evidence regarding something",
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"(idiomatic) To address a particular topic."
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"text": "His music really speaks to me.",
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"ref": "2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan",
"text": "With its pastel cover and pro-LGBTQ+ anthem “You Need to Calm Down,” Lover got a ton of airplay in that two-bedroom apartment. And the breakup songs—“Death by a Thousand Cuts,” “I Forgot That You Existed”—certainly spoke to me.",
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"(idiomatic) To (figuratively) resonate with; to feel emotionally relevant to."
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"sense": "to resonate with",
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"text": "With its pastel cover and pro-LGBTQ+ anthem “You Need to Calm Down,” Lover got a ton of airplay in that two-bedroom apartment. And the breakup songs—“Death by a Thousand Cuts,” “I Forgot That You Existed”—certainly spoke to me.",
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"(idiomatic) To (figuratively) resonate with; to feel emotionally relevant to."
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to give evidence regarding something",
"word": "osoittaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to give evidence regarding something",
"word": "perustella"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to give evidence regarding something",
"word": "montrer"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to give evidence regarding something",
"word": "démontrer"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to give evidence regarding something",
"word": "riguardare"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to give evidence regarding something",
"word": "alloquor"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to give evidence regarding something",
"word": "colloquor"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to give evidence regarding something",
"word": "affor"
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"sense": "to address a particular topic",
"word": "käsitellä"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to address a particular topic",
"word": "concernere"
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{
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"sense": "to address a particular topic",
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"word": "puhutella"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to resonate with",
"word": "toucher"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to resonate with",
"word": "colpire"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to resonate with",
"word": "alloquor"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "to resonate with",
"word": "colloquor"
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"word": "speak to"
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