Sentence examples for speak means from inspiring English sources

Extremely likely in IPCC speak means having a probability of over 95%.

Novelists usually use swearing as a sign of authenticity: being true to the way people speak means not keeping bad language out.

When he expresses his lingering concerns, a superior officer says, "I appreciate your candor," which in military-corporate speak means, "I'll get you later".

In an interview with the Arizona Republic, published on Thursday, Giffords' chief of staff, Pia Carusone, said the congresswoman's limited ability to speak means she communicates mainly through facial expressions and hand gestures.

I'm a white girl and not a white girl, identified by other people as black and not black for as long as I can remember – which, in mixed people speak means biracial.

At the same time as the chancellor is (perhaps rightly) looking to the new Bank of England governor to engage in bolder monetary policies, which in everyday speak means taking bigger risks with inflation, he has decided that to expose the living standards of the poor to the risk of that inflation as never before.

Moreover, 32.9% of families stated that their children did not speak (mean: 2.4 yrs. SD: 1.4).

Then there's model error, which, roughly speaking, means that nobody is God.

This means that for many years (perhaps hundreds of thousands) human languages were transmitted from generation to generation and were developed entirely as spoken means of communication.

The state calculates the benefit on the basis of a Bedarfsgemeinschaft, an impossible-to-translate term which broadly speaking means the household in which the jobless person lives.

The Constitution states that federal judges "shall hold their offices during good behavior" — which, practically speaking, means until they are removed by impeachment, die or resign.