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wheeze

[hweez, weez] / ʰwiz, wiz /


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Like the sound of a false leg, upon which every step becomes a little wheeze.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2025

Alesya’s dog really does wheeze when it walks.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024

But three days into a string of seven-hour rehearsals, her voice collapsed, the high notes so long her hallmark dissolving into a pitchy wheeze.

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

“This repertoire — with its contrapuntal extravaganzas, its antiphonal balances, its espousal of instruments that chuff and wheeze and speak directly to a microphone — was made for stereo,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024

Mango still has the wheeze, but I still have Mango.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass




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