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“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 ● Jul. 6, 2026
The amateur wine enthusiast learns to pronounce “gewürztraminer” and cannot resist doing so.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 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
“No, you’re not English. You can pronounce it. My real name is Duerdinhito, but the English, they cannot pronounce, so they call me Dee.”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
The way Arana pronounces the hook makes it sound like she’s singing right at the Dodgers’ Roki.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 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
“He will be blessed in heaven for such a good deed,” Grandfather pronounces.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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The decline is especially pronounced in large cities, according to a Journal analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The new findings suggest that sparkling water can temporarily lower oral pH, but the effect appears to be less pronounced than the drop caused by soda.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
The force said the 26-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident at St Catherines, Cairndow.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The latest results highlight a pronounced turnaround for Intel, which just two years ago had to suspend its dividend and conduct massive layoffs as it looked to conserve cash.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Due to my general aversion to machines and a few pronounced episodes of screaming, I was labeled a technophobe, a term that ranks fairly low on my scale of fightin’ words.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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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
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 ● Apr. 14, 2026
And all this time we’ve been pronouncing his last name incorrectly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
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
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