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phonic

[fon-ik, foh-nik] / ˈfɒn ɪk, ˈfoʊ nɪk /
ADJECTIVE
acoustic
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
auricular
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His team’s series of experiments showed that whales produce their wide repertoire of sounds with the same organ — the phonic lips in their nose, which vibrate much like a larynx does in humans.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2023

They also imaged phonic lip operation and anatomy in dead stranded porpoises.

From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2023

They saw that the phonic lips would briefly separate and then collide back together, causing a tissue vibration that would release sound into the surrounding water.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You revolve around the idea of phonic passing and “code switching”.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2018

As is well known, that philosopher went so far as to devise new characters for compound letters such as th, sh, ng, anticipating many of the later experiment in phonic writing.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.




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