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The phrase "addresses someone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of speaking to or directing a message towards a specific person or group.
Example: "In her speech, she addresses someone who has been a significant influence in her life."
Alternatives: "speaks to someone" or "directs a message to someone".
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Mr. Barnes spirals from self-loathing and marital tension — one song, "Ye, Renew the Plaintiff," addresses someone called Nina, which is his wife's name — to doubts about the purpose of the entire human race.
So when he addresses someone who's slipped into prostitution on the gentle "Police Station," or someone who appears to be a stripper on "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie," it's with earned wisdom, and warm remove.
There's the gorgeous, synaesthetic "Yes your hair smells like sunshine today", from Gasoline Horseys but better still is the opening to another love song, Saturday, on which he addresses someone for whom he has feelings he can't quite confess.
On "Dear Marie," he addresses someone who knew him before he learned to insert his foot in his mouth: "Remember me?/I'm the boy you used to love when you were 15/Now I wonder what you think when you see me in a magazine".
On Tuesday, according to a Twitter account that automatically tracks edits to congressional Wikipedia pages from congressional IP addresses, someone with a congressional IP address made edits to Gosar's Wikipedia page.
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"To address someone".
Addressing someone in the correct way can be crucial for making a good first impression.
The voice addressed someone as "son," and railed against economic inequalities between whites and blacks.
One running gag is that Moyles will break off mid-sentence to address someone off-camera.
People sometimes think that someone who can't hear has trouble processing information, so they address someone else instead.
Kabir favors the rhetorical method of apostrophe, addressing someone absent: "Friend, / You had one life, / And you blew it".
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