lilt
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I had just begun to lilt toward sleep when my phone buzzed.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
He speaks softly, with a lilt he picked up when his family moved to Australia from Lebanon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Australian is also uniquely incompatible with the American lilt, she said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
His mournful Ethiopian melodic lilt stood out like nothing else in Top 40, and he hung onto enough art-freak sensibility that he could headline the Super Bowl halftime show with dancers in full-face plastic-surgery bandages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
“Good work, Mrs. Warne,” came a man’s voice, thick with a Scottish lilt.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Jareth peeks at her from between the masked dancers whirling around her, hiding and seeking, smiling gently, for once, as “As the World Falls Down” lilts behind the action.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
“Imma make it up as I go,” she lilts, and for all its premeditation, the song swings.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
Getting digital voices to sound human, with the many required lilts and inflections, is something that AI can still struggle with.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
But it’s the dusky shadings and subtle Southern lilts that imbue emotional color and make other people’s songs momentarily her own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2021
But I, Lyow, choose Lay-making, of loud lilts which linger.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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