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Discover LudwigThe word 'resonates' is a correct and commonly used word in written English
It is used to refer to something (ideas, messages, beliefs, etc.) that are strongly felt or meaningful to someone. For example, you could say "His message of hope resonated with the crowd, and many found comfort in his words."
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resonates
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Third person singular of resonate
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The Spectator Bird was written when Stegner was sixty-seven and resonates with the cranky, retrospective musings of an older writer.
File Burnham alongside the likes of Gatsby or Norman Bates or Willy Loman - a fictional character who resonates beyond the immediate confines of his story.
He said: "The 1% have conspired to crush a crucial and legitimate democratic movement because they know it resonates with the majority of people.
It extends discomfortingly into the 20th century, and resonates today as an element of ongoing trauma in Aboriginal communities.
The Cherry Orchard is a play that resonates now with as much force as it ever did.
The station is run by Tadeusz Rydzyk, a controversial clergyman who is viscerally anti-German, anti-Russian and anti-EU, peddling a daily diet of bigotry and paranoia which resonates powerfully with mainly elderly rural voters.
We're also asking people to choose which of our three election calls resonates most with them and why, which adds a personal element to the campaign.
But he conceded that the AKP's propaganda resonates with some.
Fred's favourite sentence: "23 pints of Old Peculiar and 15 packets of crisps please barman... magic!" resonates throughout the holiday, the number of pints growing steadily throughout the years, as the "kids" all grow up.
The Gettysburg Address is a foundation stone of American history, but like the Declaration of Independence (which it cites), it also resonates around the world.
This satire isn't new: Gloria Steinem's wonderful essay If Men Could Menstruate still resonates, nearly 40 years after it appeared in Ms Magazine ("Young boys would talk about it as the envied beginning of manhood. Gifts, religious ceremonies, family dinners, and stag parties would mark the day").
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