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articulation

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




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It will take a fresh articulation for global engagement to lead America away from walls and toward bridges.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

Rarely if ever have I heard a performance so crisp in articulation and lush in musicality.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

It’s a natural articulation of the depth that your soul chose to crave.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 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

The audience seemed to have become one, its breathing and articulation synchronized.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

Some articulations may be some combination of staccato, legato, and accent.

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




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