enunciate
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Compassionate means you care about people and the policies you enunciate help people .
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
And I don’t enunciate and I can’t say half the words in the English language to this day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
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
"García de la Torre," Laura would enunciate carefully, giving her maiden as well as married name when they first arrived.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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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
“A pi-a-nist,” he enunciates, sauntering into the music room.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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But I also want it to be very enunciated and I wanted you to hear what I was saying, but also feel it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Besides, if you live awhile and read a lot of history and literature, you come to recognize a harsh truth memorably enunciated in Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023
“Jamie Lee Curtis,” producer DeVon Franklin enunciated loudly into the mic.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
In the overly enunciated voice of the pretentious intellectual she had perfected in her stand-up, she said with a dismissive flip of her hand: “I don’t participate in the economy of distinction.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
The punishment against us was never enunciated as an official policy, but it was a renewal of the harsh atmosphere that prevailed upon our arrival on the island.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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
Swedish tenor Michael Weinius, a secure and crisply articulated Tristan capable of enunciating every word, is movingly stripped, bit by bit, of all his ego armor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
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
Last school year, Ms. Szwarcewicz experimented with teaching English in a mask with a clear plastic front so students could see the shapes her lips and tongue made while enunciating.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
I repeat myself, enunciating each word as clearly as possible.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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