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“By the power that is vested in me, I pronounce that they are husband and wife,” said the officiant on June 5, 1974.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Yes, the cake is meant to taste like a childhood birthday party — so sweet it makes your teeth ring and artificial, loaded with all kinds of preservatives we can’t quite pronounce.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026

Whenever I tried to pronounce certain words, my vocal cords spasmed apart.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

The leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics will then pronounce a traditional blessing at 1000 GMT that will be closely followed this year.

From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026

Her chest shakes beneath my cheek, and at first I think she’s crying because I just called her what I used to when I couldn’t pronounce the S sound...

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

You can hear it in the way she pronounces tortang talong or yuzu kosho crisp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

One of his sons pronounces the name "Hit-lay", in order to escape embarrassment, and his grandchildren have taken their mothers' names.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

He pronounces the name of Harry’s school nemesis, Draco Malfoy, as Americans do: Mal-foy rather than Mal-foy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 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 ● Feb. 15, 2025

"And do you know,” continued Siddhartha, "what word it pronounces when one is successful in hearing all its ten thousand voices at the same time?”

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

The travelling companion managed to hail down a nearby driver, before rangers and police found Formosa later that afternoon where he was pronounced dead.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Responding officers took Brown to Kern Medical, where he was pronounced dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

The rise of generative artificial intelligence has arguably made the public’s desire for original human works even more pronounced.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Passengers Sara Sanchez, 27 years old, and her 5-month-old daughter Antonella Garcia, both from Queens, were recovered from the water but pronounced dead at a hospital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The longer she stands there, the more unsure she becomes that she has ever even heard the smudged name on the card pronounced.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The funniest part of that conversation is when Sam labels Judith a WOACA, a Woman of a Certain Age, pronouncing it as if he were Fozzie Bear punctuating a joke in an old-timey stand-up set.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

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 ● Jun. 29, 2026

Could his trouble pronouncing acetaminophen be a phonemic paraphasic error?

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026

"When the institution tried to correct this, it felt like being told you're pronouncing your mate's name wrong."

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025

I had noticed before that she spoke English in a strange way, pronouncing her words carefully, too correctly, and in proper sentences.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo