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utter
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈʌt̬·ər/

utteradjective[not gradable] (COMPLETE)

complete or extreme:
What an utter fool I was!

utterly

adverbus/ˈʌt̬·ər·li/
She felt isolated and utterly alone.
utter
verb[ T ]
us/ˈʌt̬·ər/

utterverb[T] (SAY)

to say something or make a sound with your voice:
She sat through the entire meeting and didn’t utter a word.

utterance

noun[ C ]us/ˈʌt̬·ər·əns/
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We hope their utterances will be matched by their actions.

Examples of utter

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Here, too, the voice that utters the poem is a 'common', collective one, the measure exactly appropriate.
Psychological state terms accounted for an average of 2-3% of the children's total words uttered.
If so, the composition of the respective monuments would be that of personages uttering their own calendrical names.
If the speaker made a" mistake" in uttering gone rather than" vanished", then it was not just any" mistake".
All speech has a social basis and is uttered as part of an ongoing, linked set of utterances.
In other words, only an omniscient analyst can judge the degrees of cost and pay-off to both utterer and receiver.
The truth value judgment task has subjects determining the truth of a sentence that a puppet has uttered to describe an enacted story.
Furthermore, uttering a string with quite different linguistic content, such as the bus is late again, would have had a similar effect.
Here again, there is disconnection with the situation of uttering because of the hypothetical marker if, which serves as the locator.
There would have to be reference to standards of significance that are pertinent beyond the domain of statements uttered by and about intellectuals.
A string bag will "come apart" if its substitute identity is uttered while holding it.
Usually the terms are carefully avoided, but they can also be deliberately uttered in anger.
Therefore, prescribed words such as set, selected or completed can be appropriately uttered only when the action to which they refer has indeed been completed.
He shows recognition of the customer's intended word by uttering it and thereby correcting her nonnative pronunciation (line 18).
Her complaints, reiterated multiple times, can be reflected and even anticipated, for no doubt they have been uttered before and will be uttered again.
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