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Said
As a verb

Accepted
Advertised
Affirmed
Aired
Alleged
Announced
Articulated
Asserted
Assumed
Announced
Articulated
Asserted
Assumed
Averred
Avouched
Avowed
Belied
Believed
Blabbered
Blazed
Blurted
Bolted
Breathed
Broadcast
Broadcasted
Challenged
Clad
Claimed
Clothed
Commented
Communicated
Conceived
Concluded
Confuted
Conjectured
Conned
Contended
Controverted
Crouched
Crafted
Credited
Declaimed
Declared
Deduced
Denied
Described
Disagreed
Disagreed with
Disapproved
Disavowed
Disbelieved
Disclaimed
Disclosed
Discounted
Discredited
Disowned
Disputed
Doubted
Drawled
Dreamed
Dreamt
Enunciated
Expressed
Fancied
Figured
Formulated
Formulised
Framed
Gasped
Gathered
Gave
Got off
Guessed
Hinted
Hypothecated
Hypothesized
Imagined
Implied
inferred
Insinuated
Insisted
Intimidated
Judged
learned
Lipped
Looked
Maintained
Memorised
Mistrusted
Mouthed
Murmured
Orated
Paraphrased
Passed
Phrased
Piped up
Piped up with
Promulgated
Posted
Postulated
Perceived
Preconceived
Premised
Presumed
Presupposed
Proclaimed
Professed
Publicized
Published
Purred
Put
Put into words
Questioned
Rebutted
Recited
Reckoned
Reeled off
Refuted
Rejected
Remarked
Rendered
Repeated
Rephrased
Repudiated
Restated
Rewarded
Ripped
Ripped out
Shared
Shot
Shouted
Sounded
Snarled
Speculated
Spluttered
Spoke
Spoken
Spouted
Started
Studied
Suggested
Summarised
Supposed
Surmised
Suspected
Suspicioned
Swallowed
Talked
Theorised
Thought
Told
Took
Took for granted
Translated
Uttered
Ventilated
Vented
Verbalised
Vocalised
Voiced
Whispered
Wondered
Wondered about
Worded
Wrote up