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To argue that calling them immigrants is technically wrong is like getting angry at people who don’t pronounce Los Feliz the Spanish way.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 7, 2026
What about foods that contain ingredients I can barely pronounce, never mind recognise?
From BBC β Sep. 26, 2026
I don’t care if it contains added MSG and holds a laundry list of seasonings you can’t pronounce.
From Salon β Jul. 19, 2026
“Many politicians nowadays think that history is a subject for old professors and not something which is absolutely basic, whether to negotiate or to pronounce yourself.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 6, 2026
The effect of it wasn’t very dignified, so Father retreated back to his pulpit made of wired-together palm fronds and raised up one hand, intending I guess to pronounce the benediction.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
One of his sons pronounces the name "Hit-lay", in order to escape embarrassment, and his grandchildren have taken their mothers' names.
From BBC β Mar. 18, 2026
Several years ago, NFL star brothers Jason and Travis Kelce said that everyone pronounces their name incorrectly — but it’s OK because they do too.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 13, 2026
“The depths of his self-delusion are staggering,” Mr. Hart pronounces.
From The Wall Street Journal β Dec. 1, 2025
Predictably, the answer is that no one on the Macrodata Refinement team has heard of . . . whatever it is he’s talking about, which he pronounces as glockSHOObin.
From Salon β Feb. 15, 2025
“Play fire trucks?” he asks me, except Ford always pronounces “tr” like “f.”
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
“If long-term yields rise further, that competition could become more pronounced, adding another headwind for equities.”
From MarketWatch β Oct. 11, 2026
But the mysterious triangular signal showed no evidence of the same pronounced motion.
From Science Daily β Oct. 10, 2026
Jail staff tried to revive him before he was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Sept. 5.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 10, 2026
Debra Robinson burst into tears when the guilty verdict was pronounced.
From Barron's β Oct. 9, 2026
Because of that—and Rossolimo’s pronounced accent—Bobby couldn’t understand a word.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
New England is ready to absorb Scotland as its seventh state as soon as the Scots agree to stop pronouncing their r’s.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 29, 2026
Alex Beard told The Times that Chalamet's statement earlier this year pronouncing that "no-one cares" about ballet or opera anymore had produced a "fantastic" public reaction.
From BBC β Apr. 14, 2026
Could his trouble pronouncing acetaminophen be a phonemic paraphasic error?
From Slate β Jan. 26, 2026
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen, before pronouncing sentence, rejected a bid by Sementelli’s legal team to get her sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 23, 2025
At last, a miraculous cable arrived from John, pronouncing himself “safe and sound” aboard a British destroyer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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