State
Tells
State and tells are semantically related in communicate topic. You can use "State" instead a verb "Tells", if it concerns topics such as narrate.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Similarly subverted like the Code Geass example above, Ryo from the FAKE series tells Dee he can "go ahead and do it" to him while in a depressed state.
Source: Sex for Solace -
Late in the book Greg's brother tells him he found out Tommy's real birthdate and age thanks to a friend in the State Department, he tells Greg but it's never given to the reader.
Source: Literature / The Disaster Artist - Tales of Shampoo 2 is a massive flashback that tells how things got from canon to the state they are at the start of Tales of Shampoo 1.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Ranma ½
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