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articulation

[ahr-tik-yuh-ley-shuhn] / ɑrˌtɪk jəˈleɪ ʃən /




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“We need a new articulation of what conservatives believe,” he writes, and “a fresh argument for how a rising generation can apply these principles to the challenges of today.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

The toy features elbow and wrist articulation, which allows for stimming and other gestures.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 12, 2026

Mr. Mokyr’s 2016 book, “A Culture of Growth,” is perhaps his clearest articulation of these ideas, but it’s an older book, “The Gifts of Athena,” that I find myself reaching for much more often.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

That's closely akin relates to my own 2021 proposal that public health — framed as a collective articulation of caring — could play a similar role:

From Salon May 10, 2025

He made an effort with the most careful articulation and by inserting long pauses between the individual words to remove everything remarkable from his voice.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka

Much of Mr. Roberts’s movement for that quartet of dancers, despite some upper-body torsioning and unison pacings, presents repeated articulations for their arms, suggesting the flapping of wings, which grows monotonous.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 13, 2025

The researchers envision stringing together even more actuators in parallel arrays so they can produce both very fine and very forceful articulations on the macro scale.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2023

Concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef’s playing was especially beautiful in its aching solo stretches, her articulations brimming with character, as well as the suite’s thrilling closing climb.

From Washington Post Jun. 3, 2022

It is a sentence that plainly communicates the articulations of class and respectability that are mapped on both young men, designating the contrasting boundaries of each boy’s disposability.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2022

The tempo and rhythm are not affected by articulations; the staccato notes sound shorter than written only because of the extra space between them.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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