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stentorian

[sten-tawr-ee-uhn, -tohr-] / stɛnˈtɔr i ən, -ˈtoʊr- /


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It’s an assured, intelligent performance, if a touch too stentorian.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

Much of the solo vocal writing is stentorian and talky, moving the story along.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

We can talk in stentorian terms about whether the august body that is the U.S.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2024

In the stentorian 18th-century cadences of historian Edward Gibbon and essayist Samuel Johnson, he painted a heroic portrait of that nation of shopkeepers and saw Britain’s current troubles in light of its glorious past.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

“He doesn’t understand yet,” Pris said in a sharp, brittle, stentorian voice, “how we got off Mars. What we did there.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick




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