"make a statement" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "makes a statement",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a statement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a statement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a statement",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His attorney is expected to make a statement tomorrow.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, a, statement."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2001 April, David Foster Wallace, “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage”, in Harper's Magazine",
          "text": "As we sometimes also say about elements of fashion and etiquette, the way you use English \"Makes a Statement\" or \"Sends a Message\" — even though these Statements/Messages often have nothing to do with the actual information you're trying to transmit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To implicitly communicate an idea, often through one's fashion choices."
      ],
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        [
          "fashion",
          "fashion"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "send a message"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a statement"
}

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    "English multiword terms",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a statement",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a statement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a statement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a statement",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His attorney is expected to make a statement tomorrow.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, a, statement."
      ],
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          "ref": "2001 April, David Foster Wallace, “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage”, in Harper's Magazine",
          "text": "As we sometimes also say about elements of fashion and etiquette, the way you use English \"Makes a Statement\" or \"Sends a Message\" — even though these Statements/Messages often have nothing to do with the actual information you're trying to transmit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To implicitly communicate an idea, often through one's fashion choices."
      ],
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        ],
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          "communicate",
          "communicate"
        ],
        [
          "idea",
          "idea"
        ],
        [
          "fashion",
          "fashion"
        ],
        [
          "choice",
          "choice"
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        {
          "word": "send a message"
        }
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  "word": "make a statement"
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