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- noun Plural form of
speaking .
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Examples
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R.L. Stevenson's development when he delivered that address in Edinburgh on Stevenson -- a thing very, very pardonable -- seeing that he is run after to do "speakings" of this sort; but to go on, in face of such warning and protest, printing his most misleading errors is not pardonable, and the legal recorded result is my justification and his condemnation, the more surely that even that would not awaken him so far as to cause him to restrain Mr Coates from reproducing in his _L.fe and Speeches_, just as it was originally, that peccant passage.
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial 1871
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Can you image what the international blunders and mis-speakings and lies would do to our standing in the world?
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I do understand that Rev. Wright speakings (or excerpts use to slow down Obama) may have changed the views of some mainstream America but It doesn't change what has happened in America!
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I used to be a clinton supporter until I discovered that her negative attitude and mis-speakings appeal more to our emotions than to our higher senses.
Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate 2008
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There are enormous differences in context between Obama's speakings and the howling intellectual wilderness our current administration occupies.
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It was such political shorthand that it it could only be properly categorized with his growing catalog of "jet-lagged" (ie, leading) mis-speakings.
John Tomasic: The McCain-Lieberman Big Pause Policy For Iraq 2008
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Has anyone listened to Ron Paul in any of his public speakings?
Andrew Sullivan is still touting Ron Paul. Ann Althouse 2008
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April 25, 2007 at 3:12 am thanx 2 dis site, I hases problems wif the speakings! i no can make sentences rightness! it suxxors. i tewtally are thinkings in lawlcatz!
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Chapter 2 1. Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings, 2. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3. If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
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Chapter 2 1. Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings, 2. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3. If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
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