intonation

On the highlight “Waist Deep,” a piano-led pop number with a chord progression that recalls John Lennon’s “Watching the Wheels,” her intonation is simple and clear, content to let the melody do the emotional work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

His unique delivery – conversational and charismatic, combining Jamaican intonation with witty Britishisms and elevated vocabulary – was already in place.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

And then when I was singing, he took me through every intonation of how he heard it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024

But in the second version, the added focus, through intonation, implies that "toy" contrasts with the previously discussed "blicket."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

What’s left after content-filtering is a kind of garble that preserves intonation, pitch, and rhythm but erases content.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The Spanish is archaic, the intonations are complicated, and the words tumble over themselves like a hard charge toward the goal posts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Birds squawked in weird intonations, a few stars dotted a purplish sky, and the temperature felt like it dropped several degrees.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 4, 2024

It's now possible for AI to take three seconds of human speech and then hold forth at length with its same patterns and intonations in an exact mimicry.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023

It has Rosario intonations, it's something someone's grandmother might say.

From BBC ● May 29, 2023

Every night I’ve gone over it, again and again in bed, struggling to get the intonations right and strike the perfect nasal tone.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau