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Audibly, aloud, as in I sometimes find myself reading the paper out loud , or That movie was hilarious; the whole audience was laughing out loud . First recorded in 1821, this synonym for aloud was once criticized as too colloquial for formal writing, but this view is no longer widespread. Moreover, aloud is rarely used with verbs like laugh and cry . Also see for crying out loud .

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Curt Mills of the magazine the American Conservative said the quiet part out loud: “The reality is operational — Hegseth is just not up to this.”

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However, the Lib Dems want to change the law to explicitly ban playing music and videos out loud from a phone on trains and buses in England.

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“It needed to be said out loud for us to actually make it real, to make it feel like this is something that can happen,” he said.

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Trump also said Bukele should build more prisons as he mused out loud about plans to send American citizens to prison in El Salvador.

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“Just saying out loud some of the things that were hurtful about childhood, the pain goes away and you realize everybody has stuff,” she said.

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