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aloud

/əˈlaʊd/ adverb B1
  1. With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly. · Try speaking aloud rather than whispering.
  2. Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly. · speaking aloud rather than thinking thoughts privately
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Look too, at my feathers—they are not the least like those of a Crane.” The Farmer laughed aloud and said, “It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 8 · B2
The cows swung placidly down the lane, and Anne followed them dreamily, repeating aloud the battle canto from _Marmion_--which had also been part of their English course the preceding winter and which Miss Stacy had made them learn off by heart--and exulting in its rushing lines and the clash of spears in its imagery.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 230 · C1
Finally he lit his pipe, and sitting in the inglenook of the old village inn he talked slowly and at random about his case, rather as one who thinks aloud than as one who makes a considered statement.
The Valley of Fear, p. 66 · C1
Whenever the trees are crying aloud,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 3 · C1

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