enunciate
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Compassionate means you care about people and the policies you enunciate help people .
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
The coordinator, too, wants Howell to “over-communicate” and enunciate clearly so that teammates don’t miss a word, Howell says.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2023
He doesn't think screen acting has changed much over the decades but he does have a grumble about "mumbling" - actors who fail to enunciate their lines.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2023
As with “queer,” she’s out to enunciate all the meanings and manifestations of “freedom” that our current conversation obscures.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Then I cleared my throat and said my log-in pass phrase, being careful to enunciate: “You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.”
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Chandrasekhar admitted he was no Jacques Bailly, the University of Vermont classics professor who has been the competition’s official pronouncer since 2003 and enunciates each word with a vaguely Midwestern intonation.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2022
He enunciates like a dressed-up Dylan on "Mother of Pearl," and cranks up the exaggeration on the Brechtian, funk-smeared proto-post-punk of "She Sells."
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2018
The cast, a multiethnic ensemble as it is in all “Hamilton” productions, enunciates more precisely than their American counterparts.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2018
The play also enunciates its points a little too baldly in places.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2016
“A pi-a-nist,” he enunciates, sauntering into the music room.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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With free shipping! — but if Prime Video hasn’t yet enunciated as clear a brand identity as competitors like Disney+, it remains part of an attractive package deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
“Jamie Lee Curtis,” producer DeVon Franklin enunciated loudly into the mic.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Jazz players considered her their musical equal, yet even when she was singing at breakneck tempos, she enunciated every word with perfect clarity.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2023
In the overly enunciated voice of the pretentious intellectual she had perfected in her stand-up, she said with a dismissive flip of her hand: “I don’t participate in the economy of distinction.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
The punishment against us was never enunciated as an official policy, but it was a renewal of the harsh atmosphere that prevailed upon our arrival on the island.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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She would sit with me for hours on the couch, pointing to words in books and magazines, and patiently enunciating them, bantering with me in an inexhaustible volley of puns, spoonerisms and goofy double entendres.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 12, 2023
Swedish tenor Michael Weinius, a secure and crisply articulated Tristan capable of enunciating every word, is movingly stripped, bit by bit, of all his ego armor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
An LDS church spokesman later said the organization was not endorsing specific legislation but rather Mr. Bednar was enunciating “guiding principles” on the matter.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2022
Todd addressed him deliberately, enunciating each word: “Do you remember the guardianship case?”
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
He welcomes us with Mr. Brady's confident smile, speaking slowly, enunciating each word clearly.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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