phonic
Example Sentences
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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
One of the forces behind this phonic revolution seems to have been sheer thespian ambition.
From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2012
Children are systematically taught around 40 phonic sounds and the combination of letters used to represent each sound.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2012
An adaptation of phonic combined with the word method can be found in Education by Life.
From The Child under Eight by Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
