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[frayz] / freɪz /




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“Libertad” completes a trilogy begun with those EPs, with all three titles forming the phrase “pan, tierra, libertad.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

"Let's go, Lula!" the oft-repeated phrase mingled in the air with a non-stop chorus of honking horns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The phrase isn’t as well known as “the economies of scale,” but it should be.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

One of the answers lies in the phrase 'lighter is faster'.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Variation: Sing each phrase one at a time.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

"A lot of the time, I would hear people using phrases like 'Is it because I is black?' or 'Booyakasha'," he recalls.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Coroners are in the business of endings, putting a neat period on decades of damage with phrases like “cardiac arrest.”

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Words and phrases that will earn you a mark: genuinely, load-bearing, smoking gun, X is the new Y, and any “crazy hyphenated contractions that no one would normally use,” says Mehta, 33.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Other popular phrases unique to the Who-verse: “Good form, Bella Thorne.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Melodies are often described as being made up of phrases.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Other countries have phrased it well: truth and reconciliation.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Pascal Confavreux, a ministry spokesman, phrased it more diplomatically: “We use irony and humor to deliver a punch and create deterrence by exposing the absurdity of the claims made by those who attack us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Pochin has apologised for her remarks, saying they were "phrased poorly" but maintained that many adverts were "unrepresentative of British society".

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

It’s also important to know how a poll question is phrased and, in the case of a ballot measure, how it describes the matter voters are being asked to decide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

It sounded like a callous way to put things, but the way he phrased it, so soft and concerned, I liked him.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

The language on the Bulletin’s About Us page displays markers of artificial intelligence such as generic mission statements, polished but repetitive phrasing and vague claims about journalistic standards with no details about the publication’s staff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Government lawyers argued at a hearing before Cooper on Thursday that the phrasing would not constitute a renaming but rather recognition of Trump's efforts to renovate the building honoring president John F Kennedy.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

His tenor saxophone’s tone grows more appealingly buttery with each passing year, yet his phrasing has lost none of its urgency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The violin’s absence of frets, which had been a feature of the viola da gamba family and the lute, also allowed its player greater freedom in the tuning and individuality of phrasing.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall


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