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Idiom

out loud

Meaning

Using the voice; not silently; aloud.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Please read the instructions out loud for the class.”

“I often talk to myself out loud when I am trying to solve a difficult problem.”

“She hesitated to speak her true feelings out loud, fearing that the weight of her words might irrevocably alter the course of their fragile relationship.”

Examples

simple

“Please read the instructions out loud for the class.”

contextual

“I often talk to myself out loud when I am trying to solve a difficult problem.”

complex

“She hesitated to speak her true feelings out loud, fearing that the weight of her words might irrevocably alter the course of their fragile relationship.”

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