phonic

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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

"In toothed whales, air is only used to drive the phonic lips that then, via tissue acceleration, generates a click that propagates through tissue in the nose and then into the water," Elemans added.

From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2023

In 2012, the transmissions switched from analog to digital, reducing the recurrence of other phonic intrusions, to McCown’s chagrin.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2018

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

March 3rd.—Visited the Jesuit's church, and three schools; phonic and Lancasterian method of learning.

From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by Hodgins, J. George (John George)