consonant

And the “Laudamus Te,” with its insistent back-and-forth reiteration of the simplest consonant harmonies, sounds like a prefiguration of Virgil Thomson’s “Four Saints in Three Acts.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Now he seems to regret it—though he still hasn’t apologized directly or acknowledged that he was wrong, and is pretending that what he said earlier is consonant with what he’s saying now.

From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2025

“To supplement not having F and V and Th and M, we have consonant clusters like jl and cht … that we don’t have in English, but they can be made lower in the throat.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

The multinational taking over The Connector is the consonant cluster VorschlagXE.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

An M followed by a vowel, then a consonant, then a vowel, then a consonant.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

I had more trouble with voiceless consonants than voiced ones—one of the sample sentences for this type of SD reduced my voice to a whisper on nearly every syllable.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

To create an otherworldly voice, Elordi studied Tibetan throat singing and incorporated the slurred consonants caused by dentures he’d been given for the role.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

Her characters would crash down on consonants, as though landing a plane in the midst of an engine blowout or stretch out vowels in defiance of several laws of physics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

They were prone to making simple mistakes, including basic addition errors and mistaking consonants for vowels, which led them to provide incorrect answers.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024

Restricting signs to those for single consonants was only the first of three crucial innovations that distinguished alphabets from other writing systems.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond