James Gleick

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.

American Author

Ann Turner

The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.

American Writer

Sherri Shepherd

I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don't take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health.

American Entertainer

Mike Simpson

Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.

American Politician

Evelyn Glennie

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

Scottish Musician

Donovan

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition.

Tony DiTerlizzi

I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.

American Artist

Neal Katyal

Justice Scalia was usually particularly challenging to me at oral argument, but I so respected his intellect and commitment to the pursuit of truth.

American Lawyer

Svetlana Alexievich

There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters.

Belarusian Journalist

Luciana Berger

I've been working to see that mental health is raised in both oral and written question sessions in parliament.

British Politician

Use 'oral' when talking about anything involving the mouth, especially in healthcare contexts.

Health Focus

In dentistry, 'oral' is commonplace and can refer to procedures, regions, or conditions of the mouth.

Dental Specific

'Oral' implies the act is performed by speaking and is often used in educational and legal settings.

Speech Emphasis

'Oral' can relate to traditions passed by word of mouth, not recorded in writing, like folk tales.

Cultural Storytelling

While 'oral' can be informal when describing spoken activities, it's formal in educational contexts.

Informal Speech

Remember that 'oral' in a sexual context is adult content and might not be appropriate in all situations.

Sensitive Topic

Always approach the topic of 'oral' in sexual contexts with consent and respect in mind.

Consent Matters

An 'oral' often refers to an exam where answers are spoken rather than written, common in language tests.

Academic Test

For an 'oral', practicing speaking skills and knowledge aloud can help you perform better.

Exam Preparation

Although less common, an 'oral' can be as rigorous as a written exam, testing depth of knowledge.

Serious Assessment

 I'm not one of the many researchers around the world who's looking at the effects of pesticides or diseases or habitat loss and poor nutrition on bees. We're looking at ways to make bees healthier through vaccines, through yogurt, like probiotics, and other types of therapies in ways that can be fed orally to bees,

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 sorts of studies on the world lemurs just it's very interesting isn't it really we've done all sorts of studies just orally my behavior and that kind of thing the amount of numbers they've got in the world because that's something that's relatively understudied and they're in the middle of building

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 elevating your head, and avoiding sleeping on your back may also help. For people who have a milder condition, mouth and throat exercises have been shown to alleviate obstructive sleep apnea in some preliminary trials. But these approaches, and devices like oral appliances,

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 These basic steps are the same for any drug that you take orally, but the speed of the process and the amount of medicine that makes it into your blood stream varies based on drug, person, and how it gets into the body. The dosing instructions on medicine labels can help,

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 How could we support students in exploring all of their desires with these eye-opening experiences and chances to learn from primary sources? Could we create VR for inexpensive headsets that lets them be immersed in oral literature or in critical moments of human history?

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 early fish evolved a jointed oral jaw from one of the bony arches that supported their frontal gills. This exterior, oral jaw was perfect for capturing or chewing prey, but these early fish had a problem. They had no limbs to manipulate food while eating,

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 cenotes are the collapse of caverns holes in the ground and we see and we can access the aquifer cenotes were super important for the Maya because they are part of the underworld we have heard for a long time the oral tradition

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 it's afternoon and I'll gamble to come here this afternoon will pay off so child over the universe it is a big pride at 16 in total without the coalition males that are ones that produced these Cubs and it's the oral

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 No. It was the whole, you know, motion. And the amazing thing to me is that you would think this woman would have excellent oral hygiene. Sadly -- this is what it said in the journal paper --

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 human walks as well and you can create a very funny story about a crying orange who didn't want to be peeled lately some languages around the world like the oral

Oral

Related to the mouth.

Often appears as...

Done by speaking, not writing.

Often appears as...

Relating to sexual activity with the mouth.

A spoken exam.

Often appears as...

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