accent
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"I go, 'Brett, I will go to my grave swearing that it was your voice, it was your cadence, it was words you would use. There was no accent. It was you on the phone.'"
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
When asked if more action films lie ahead - maybe even a stint as the next James Bond - Khan replied: "No. I don't have the accent. And I don't like shaken martinis."
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
I didn't realize that I had an accent until I went to college, and then I was like, "I don't have an accent. What do you mean?"
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2024
“Eva Longoria doesn’t have an accent. Jennifer Lopez doesn’t have an accent. Jessica Alba doesn’t have an accent. Is it frustrating? Of course. In the beginning, more than now,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2024
“You told me to tell you if he ever started talking with a German accent. I got him to speak German, so that’s even better, right?”
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
Vocabulary lists containing accent
Reading: Literature - Poetry - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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