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1. opine, speak up, speak out, animadvert, sound offverb

   express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation

   "John spoke up at the meeting"

   Synonyms:
   opine, complain, imagine, speak out, strike up, plain, kick, kvetch, guess, animadvert, quetch, sound off, think, suppose, reckon

2. speak upverb

   speak louder; raise one's voice

   "The audience asked the lecturer to please speak up"

   Synonyms:
   opine, animadvert, speak out, sound off

How to use speak up in a sentence?

1. Katsumoto Saotome:

   Those of us who survived have a duty to become a voice for the voiceless, if I'm quiet, it means I've accepted the situation. If we don't speak up, the past will be made to disappear.

2. Martin Lee:

   I hope the Canadian government and the Canadian Parliament will speak up for us at this difficult stage, if Hong Kong were to go down the slippery slope as now, Hong Kong will become just another Chinese city.

3. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   As prime minister of Israel, I have a moral obligation to speak up in the face of these dangers while there’s still time to avert them.

4. Taylor Swift:

   I guess I just think about all the people that weren't believed and the people who haven't been believed, and the people who are afraid to speak up because they think they won't be believed, i just wanted to say I'm sorry to anyone who ever wasn't believed, because I don't know what turn my life would have taken if somebody didn't believe me when I said something had happened to me.

5. Barack Obama:

   My message to you - the people of Iran - is that, together, we have to speak up for the future we seek.

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