give voice to

1. Say or express, especially an opinion or feeling. For example, The faculty gave voice to their anger over the dean's tenure decisions. This term once meant “to vote.” Its present sense dates from the mid-1800s.

Example Sentences

His words give voice to the suffering that children endure in this modern-day slaughter.

From Salon

Jackson has chosen, time and time again, to give voice to that dissonance, both in the confines of her dissents and in her speeches directly addressing this perilous legal moment.

From Slate

He said he wrote the book to "give voice to what it's like to grow up in a home where domestic abuse wasn't the word - it was coercive control and it didn't appear on my TV screens".

From BBC

Doing the research for the play helped give voice to people who "often have no say in what's happening", but it also revealed to the pair the breadth of talent across the arts in Port Talbot.

From BBC

But banning words that give voice to the marginalized from official language is an attempt to silence opposition and, literally, to control the narrative.

From Salon

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