speak to

present singular third person speaks to · participle present speaking to · past spoke to · participle past spoken to

1. idiomaticTo give evidence regarding something; to attest or provide evidence for; to bespeak.

   This definitely speaks to the fact that at Georgetown, beginning at the admissions process, you're not a number but a real person.

   2006, Staff of Vault, The College Buzz Book, page 176

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   Leaving aside the abundance of negativity for the time being, in aggregate these attempts at definition speak to the multitude of linguistic phenomena characteristic of language hybridity in multilingual settings, albeit explained with differing emphases by different definers.

   2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7

2. idiomaticTo address a particular topic.

   Education for being speaks to what grows within the person himself

   1981, McGill journal of education

3. idiomaticTo (figuratively) resonate with; to feel emotionally relevant to.

   His music really speaks to me.

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   With its pastel cover and pro-LGBTQ+ anthem “You Need to Calm Down,” Lover got a ton of airplay in that two-bedroom apartment. And the breakup songs—“Death by a Thousand Cuts,” “I Forgot That You Existed”—certainly spoke to me.

   2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan