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elocute
verb 2
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verb
1
To speak, declaim, etc., in an elocutionary manner.
2
To state, assert or admit.
The girl, now 13, wore a green dress. She was somber as [Rudy Lozano] required Beith to elocute – state the charges against him and account for his role in the crime.
“If the defendant gets up and elocutes today that he’s sorry – the facts show that he is not sorry, that he doesn’t believe he committed any crimes,” York County Deputy District Attorney Justina McGettigan told the court.
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The girl, now 13, wore a green dress. She was somber as [Rudy Lozano] required Beith to elocute – state the charges against him and account for his role in the crime.
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“If the defendant gets up and elocutes today that he’s sorry – the facts show that he is not sorry, that he doesn’t believe he committed any crimes,” York County Deputy District Attorney Justina McGet
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Does anybody really think that Newt Gingrich[…] let alone people such as Dennis Hastert, who later elocuted in court to abusing young boys sexually,[…] does anybody think that these people really went
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