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vocalize

[voh-kuh-lahyz] / ˈvoʊ kəˌlaɪz /


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Either way, you’ll need to vocalize some boundaries, but I’d go about it differently depending on who this directive is coming from.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

“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

They can vocalize at extremely low frequencies and in so doing communicate with other whales as far down into the ocean as 100 meters deep.

From Salon Feb. 23, 2024

When they found each other again, they started to vocalize and re-bonded with each other, according to officials with the humane society.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2023

He made an effort not to vocalize his thoughts.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Take, for example, a chimp who vocalizes and pulls at the bars of their enclosure when someone approaches.

From Salon Jun. 5, 2024

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

He traverses the stage, wrapping a feather and fabric concoction by the costume designer Marianne Fassler around his body, as he vocalizes mournfully: a requiem for a new generation.

From New York Times Sep. 23, 2022

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

If the vowel-elements have been carefully practiced in vocalizes, there will be little effort required to secure the correct formation of all the vowel-sounds of words.

From The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs by Francis E. Howard

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

The lawmakers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 20 congressional Democrats, vocalized their disappointment in a scathing letter signed last Sunday.

From Salon Feb. 2, 2025

These vocalizations agitated Rani, who circled and vocalized in a brief burst before collapsing.

From Washington Times Oct. 19, 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

Kendra realized the problem before Seth vocalized it.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

"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

I wouldn’t pay to hear her read the proverbial phone book, but I might shell out to hear her sing it, while cracking jokes in between vocalizing.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 10, 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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