diction
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Elle Vosque, Catrin Feelings, Bones and Silllexa Diction were put through their paces one last time.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025
Diction harking back to a more genteel era.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2015
By the final, American set he sang Ives’s “The Things Our Fathers Loved” with straightforward ease, giving the music a kind of luminosity, without recourse to what I might term capital-D Diction.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2014
N.B. my aunt Deming dont approve of my English. & has not the fear that you will think her concernd in the Diction
From Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 by Winslow, Anna Green
Were not the whole so really admirable, both in Thought and Diction, I should not stumble at such Straws; such Straws as you can easily blow away if you should ever care to do so.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis
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You Can Say That Again: Dic and Dict
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