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Provided a speech to read out (6)

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I believe the answer is:

orated

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'provided a speech' is the definition.
The answer and definition 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?

'to read out' is the wordplay.
'out' is an anagram indicator (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'to'+'read'='toread'
'toread' with letters rearranged gives 'ORATED'.

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(Other definitions for orated that I've seen before include "made a speech" , "Talked pompously" , "Made speeches" , "Spoke at length" , "lectured" .)

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