consonant
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In a milieu where dissonance had long been king, this was assertively consonant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Now he seems to regret it—though he still hasn’t apologized directly or acknowledged that he was wrong, and is pretending that what he said earlier is consonant with what he’s saying now.
From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2025
“To supplement not having F and V and Th and M, we have consonant clusters like jl and cht … that we don’t have in English, but they can be made lower in the throat.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
The multinational taking over The Connector is the consonant cluster VorschlagXE.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
“Nor are Duncan and Donalbain, who also share an initial and, for that matter, concluding, consonant, the same person.”
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
I had more trouble with voiceless consonants than voiced ones—one of the sample sentences for this type of SD reduced my voice to a whisper on nearly every syllable.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
To create an otherworldly voice, Elordi studied Tibetan throat singing and incorporated the slurred consonants caused by dentures he’d been given for the role.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
Even to native English speakers, the transliteration of familiar words into an alphabet with imperfectly matched consonants — lacking, for example, a precise “F” or “R” sound — can be confusing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
They were prone to making simple mistakes, including basic addition errors and mistaking consonants for vowels, which led them to provide incorrect answers.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
A special spot?wavex?scrambler also caused his televised image, in the area immediately about his lips, to mouth the vowels and consonants beautifully.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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