ut·ter·ance
ˈə-tə-rən(t)s 
also ˈə-trən(t)s
ut·ter·ance
ˈə-tə-rən(t)s
ˈə-trən(t)s
archaic
: the last extremity : bitter end
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Noun (2)
many writers have used poetry as a means to give utterance to their deepest thoughts
celebrities whose every utterance is treated as though it were newsworthy
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John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
Women possessed by the gods were oracles, predicting the future in cryptic utterances.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Once the monkeys learned to match each sound to its associated image, the team introduced different speakers’ utterances of the sounds to see if the association remained.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 12 Feb. 2025
And with every utterance, those 59-year-old eyes that once seemed glazed appeared to glisten.
—Joey Knight, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
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Noun
At the moment, partisan anger is all the rage, and that finds its utterance.
—John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
Women possessed by the gods were oracles, predicting the future in cryptic utterances.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Once the monkeys learned to match each sound to its associated image, the team introduced different speakers’ utterances of the sounds to see if the association remained.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 12 Feb. 2025
And with every utterance, those 59-year-old eyes that once seemed glazed appeared to glisten.
—Joey Knight, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
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“Utterance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/utterance. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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