Gave a speech with rewritten medical notes beforehand (9)

I believe the answer is:

declaimed

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'gave a speech' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'rewritten medical notes beforehand' is the wordplay.
'rewritten' indicates an anagram.
'notes' becomes 'de' (two musical notes).
'beforehand' says to put letters next to each other.
'medical' is an anagram of 'claimed'.
'claimed' put after 'de' is 'DECLAIMED'.

'with' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for declaimed that I've seen before include "Pronounced" , "Read aloud" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.

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