- present participle of phrase.
phrasing
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At the end of the show, a stunning reading of “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” revealed the instinctive ease with which she can navigate the sweet, syncopated phrasing of Dominican merengue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department released the handwritten notes Friday, saying investigators believe the author’s distinctive language, grammar and phrasing could be recognized by someone who knows the writer.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Whatever the tone of his voice might owe to state-of-the-art recording techniques, the suppleness and clarity of his phrasing are undeniably impressive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
What kind of emotion do you hear in the melody, rhythm and phrasing?
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
They captured the unique phrasings of drivers of the capital’s private minibuses — which once constituted a hefty fraction of Kyiv transport, but began to fade in the era of Uber — hawking their destinations.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
The version channeling comedian Jerry Seinfeld captured his signature phrasings.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
The version channeling comedian Jerry Seinfeld captured his verbal mannerisms and signature phrasings.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
In the absence of conventional talking heads, her thoughtful, melancholy phrasings achieve a lyricism that harks back to a classical tradition of French documentary filmmaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
In these instances, I believe that her actions speak even louder than whatever words she might have said, so I have filled in some cracks in the research with my own phrasings.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
