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told

Definition for told

adjective as in announced

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declared, disclosed, issued, released, reported

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broadcast, circulated, communicated, divulged, publicized, revealed

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declared publicly, made public

adjective as in explained

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elucidated, interpreted, related

adjective as in legendary

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fabled, fabulous, mythical, storied

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allegorical, apocryphal, created, customary, doubtful, dubious, fabricated, fanciful, figmental, handed-down, imaginary, imaginative, improbable, invented, mythological, related, romantic, traditional, unhistoric, unhistorical, unreal, unverifiable

adjective as in manifest

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glaring, palpable, unambiguous, unmistakable

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bold, clear-cut, disclosed, divulged, evidenced, evinced, open, patent, plain, revealed, shown

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apparent, big as life, conspicuous, crystal clear, distinct, evident, noticeable, prominent, straightforward, visible

adjective as in mentioned

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cited, quoted, specified, voiced

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communicated, considered, declared, discussed, intimated, named, revealed, suggested

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brought up, made known, referred to, spoken of

adjective as in numbered

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categorized, checked, contained, counted, designated, doomed, enumerated, fated, fixed, included, indicated, marked, specified, totalled

adjective as in oral

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lingual, sonant, vocal

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articulate, ejaculatory, narrated, phonated, phonetic, phonic, recounted, related, said, sounded, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, voiced, word-of-mouth

adjective as in professed

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acknowledged, announced, declared, pledged

adjective as in rumored

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broadcast, bruited, circulating, gossiped, prevailing, said

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all over town, given out, going around, rife

adjective as in spoken

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announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, mentioned, said, voiced

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lingual, oral, phonetic, unwritten, verbal

adjective as in spoken

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announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, mentioned, said, uttered, voiced

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lingual, oral, phonetic, phonic, put into words, sonant, traditional, unwritten, verbal, viva voce

adjective as in stated

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certain, declared, fixed

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adjective as in verbal

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rhetorical, unwritten

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exact, expressed, lexical, lingual, literal, oral, phrasal, said, stated, verbatim, word-for-word, word-of-mouth

adjective as in warned

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advised, cautioned, informed, notified

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Example Sentences

He denigrated the use of masks, frequently mocking those who did and ignored the social distancing measures recommended by the experts because his "business friends" told him it hurt the economy.

From Salon

"As we have said many times before, we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products, and we never will," a spokesperson told the BBC.

From BBC

She told BBC News she is now "angry, frustrated and apprehensive about the future".

From BBC

When asked a couple of weeks ago if she was going to quit as an MSP she told journalists "you'll have to wait and see".

From BBC

This was the agreement that never got signed after Zelensky was told to leave the White House last month.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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