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Verb group 6

Read 84% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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Read 84% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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State 84% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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State 84% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Tell 84% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Tell 84% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Manner of action 61

Accent 76% connected

A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

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Accentuate 76% connected

To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

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Add 76% connected

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

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Affirm 76% connected

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

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Announce 76% connected

To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

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Answer 76% connected

To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

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Append 76% connected

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

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Articulate 76% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Aspirate 76% connected

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Click 76% connected

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

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Command 76% connected

To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Drawl 76% connected

To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.

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Enunciate 76% connected

To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.

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Explain 76% connected

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

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Explode 76% connected

To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

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Flap 76% connected

Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Instruct 76% connected

Arranged; furnished; provided.

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Introduce 76% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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Labialize 76% connected

To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

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Lilt 76% connected

To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.

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Lisp 76% connected

To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.

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Mention 76% connected

A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.

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Mispronounce 76% connected

To pronounce incorrectly.

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Misspeak 76% connected

To err in speaking.

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Misstate 76% connected

To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate.

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Nasalize 76% connected

To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.

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Note 76% connected

To butt; to push with the horns.

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Observe 76% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

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Plead 76% connected

of Plead

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Precede 76% connected

To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

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Preface 76% connected

Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary re…

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Premise 76% connected

A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

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Prescribe 76% connected

To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Remark 76% connected

To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.

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Reply 76% connected

To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.

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Represent 76% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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Require 76% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Respond 76% connected

To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

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Retroflex 76% connected

Alt. of Retroflexed

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Roll 76% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Round 76% connected

To whisper.

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Sibilate 76% connected

To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

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Sound 76% connected

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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Stress 76% connected

Distress.

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Sum 76% connected

The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added t…

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Summarize 76% connected

To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Syllabize 76% connected

To syllabify.

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Trill 76% connected

To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.

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Twang 76% connected

A tang. See Tang a state.

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Vocalize 76% connected

To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.

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Voice 76% connected

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quali…

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Vowelize 76% connected

To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.

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Warn 76% connected

To refuse.

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Broader term 23

Assert 76% connected

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

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Asseverate 76% connected

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

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Chance 76% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

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Convey 76% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Feature 76% connected

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Maintain 76% connected

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

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Mouth 76% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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Opportunity 76% connected

Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.

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Read 76% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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Recite 76% connected

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from reco…

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Record 76% connected

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

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Register 76% connected

A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.

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Request 76% connected

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Speak 76% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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Speculate 76% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Utter 76% connected

Outer.

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Verbalize 76% connected

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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Derivationally related 10

Locution 74% connected

Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.

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Locution 74% connected

Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.

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State 74% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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State 74% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Statement 74% connected

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Statement 74% connected

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Supposition 74% connected

The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

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Supposition 74% connected

The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

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Entails 5

Mouth 72% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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Speak 72% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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Talk 72% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Utter 72% connected

Outer.

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Verbalize 72% connected

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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Synonym 12

Allege 92% connected

To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Articulate 92% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Aver 92% connected

A work horse, or working ox.

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Enjoin 92% connected

To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Enounce 92% connected

To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Enunciate 92% connected

To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Order 92% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pronounce 92% connected

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Read 92% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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State 92% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suppose 92% connected

To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tell 92% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Near synonym 8

State 92% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

general 78% interchangeable

State overlaps with say, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Explain 90% connected

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

general 74% interchangeable

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Argue 88% connected

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

general 70% interchangeable

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Claim 86% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

general 66% interchangeable

Claim overlaps with say, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Note 84% connected

To butt; to push with the horns.

general 62% interchangeable

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Observe 82% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

general 58% interchangeable

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Declare 80% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

general 54% interchangeable

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Remark 78% connected

To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.

general 50% interchangeable

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Formal equivalent 1

State 88% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

reporting 78% interchangeable more formal

State is a neutral formal reporting verb.

The author says that... / The author states that...

Academic alternative 3

Argue 88% connected

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

argument 55% interchangeable more formal stronger

Argue should be used when a person supports a position with reasons.

The paper says reform is needed. / The paper argues that reform is needed.
Claim 84% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

claim 52% interchangeable more formal stronger

Claim can signal that a statement is asserted but not necessarily accepted.

The company says the method works. / The company claims the method works.
Suggest 84% connected

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

caution 48% interchangeable more formal softer

Suggest expresses a cautious or indirect conclusion.

The study says there may be a link. / The study suggests a link.
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