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enunciate

[ih-nuhn-see-ayt] / ɪˈnʌn siˌeɪt /


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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

Biden has a stutter, which can make it seem as if he can’t remember words when in fact he is struggling to enunciate them.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 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

Dandy, too, was an influence, meticulously correcting our grammar or admonishing us to enunciate our words when we went over for dinner.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Constitution, which enunciates the right to a “speedy and public trial” and to “be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation.”

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024

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

“It is a famine of beauty,” Mr. Talley enunciates with an air of great tragedy.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2022

Through what she was saying, I came to realize that the way she speaks is actually intentional—she enunciates as if she’s on stage giving a performance.

From Slate ● May 4, 2021

"Love," Yo enunciates, letting the full force of the word loose in her mouth.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

They deliver their lines in an emotionless, crystal-clear manner that verges on the unrehearsed; not entirely affectless, but rather with the slightly enunciated flatness of an audio tutorial.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2023

Gone are the days of the Friedman Doctrine, enunciated in 1970 by the influential laissez-faire economist Milton Friedman.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022

“Quite well,” he enunciated; and, with a bow, he left the gate.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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

“You ask somebody how they’re doing now, you better be careful, because they might tell you,” he says, enunciating consonants like a boxer following through on uppercuts.

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021

The introduction to the first episode, “Starday,” begins with a bar-room fixture: “Many country musicians were famously addicted to pinball during this time,” Coe says, his voice distinctively enunciating each word.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2021

“But,” he says, enunciating very slowly, “what about the collections that are not on public display?”

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr


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