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
They also imaged phonic lip operation and anatomy in dead stranded porpoises.
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
Stations wholly magnetic may be established by adding to the transmitter and two receivers a Sieur phonic call, which will actuate them powerfully, and cause them to produce a noise loud enough for a call.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
