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vocalize

[voh-kuh-lahyz] / ˈvoʊ kəˌlaɪz /


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While he was in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, Khawaja was moved by an essay that argued that fish suffer inhumane deaths because they cannot vocalize pain.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2025

“So, I went up on my medicine and I see my therapist. I try to see her every Wednesday, and I try to vocalize a lot when I’m feeling overwhelmed.”

From Seattle Times Jun. 5, 2024

Research has shown that cats meow primarily when in the presence of humans, suggesting that we can’t help but skew the app’s inputs, while some cats rarely vocalize at all.

From Slate Nov. 13, 2023

Early birders have the best chance of catching a lot of activity, as many species begin to vocalize and feed to greet the day.

From New York Times Jun. 29, 2023

We miss him terribly and Geak, being so young, is the only one able to vocalize our loneliness, by continuing to ask for Pa. I am afraid for Geak.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

At one point, Tom vocalizes what the audience is asking, which is, "Why do you keep doing this?"

From Salon Jun. 7, 2023

In the second movement, the soloist vocalizes alongside notated playing, which Chase dispatched with her trademark theatricality.

From New York Times May 10, 2023

While Bill vocalizes one warning — that getting close to someone is how you get killed in the world of the game — his purpose is to serve as the opposite.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 29, 2023

It’s a tale of sound; the song of a solitary whale that vocalizes at a unique frequency, 52 Hertz, that no other whale—as the story goes—can seemingly understand.

From Scientific American Sep. 28, 2021

With Oscar Saenger the pupil in early stages at least, uses Ah for vocalizes.

From Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers by Brower, Harriette

The opening is an awakening, with group vocalized rhythms, but that is something only a tabla player can really pull off.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2025

Biden had previously vocalized his concerns to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call last week.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2023

At the press opening for the Metropolitan Museum’s beyond-beautiful “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E.,” five red-robed monks chanted Pali blessings, the vocalized equivalent of oceanic silence.

From New York Times Jul. 21, 2023

The researchers set out to see whether there were differences in levels of correlation when “in-cluster” and “out-of-cluster” bats vocalized.

From Scientific American Jun. 16, 2023

Kendra realized the problem before Seth vocalized it.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

They communicate by touching each other with their trunks, smelling each other and vocalizing.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2026

"It's reacting, it has both eyes open, it's vocalizing, but it's incredibly uncertain and it's scared," he said.

From BBC Mar. 26, 2026

It wasn’t until recent weeks that people began really vocalizing their animosity.

From Slate Feb. 27, 2026

Hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped from public markets after prominent CEOs and analysts started publicly vocalizing concerns about an AI bubble.

From Barron's Nov. 20, 2025

Still, decisions about crescendos and decrescendos, tempo, and score reading have to be made, but there are endless possibilities for vocalizing and playing these child-centered compositions.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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