accent
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Arendt’s German accent, cutting formulations and adversarial composure—Hans Morgenthau, a political scientist and friend of Arendt, said she was an “intellectual street fighter”—became inseparable from her arguments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
You refresh a feed for news of a village whose name your relatives say with their whole mouths and you say with an accent that gives you away.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
The same agent, who spoke with a Chicano accent, later sped off in a vehicle while asking in Spanglish, “¿Alguien arresto un tonk, güey?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Stevens speaks energetically in a thick regional accent.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
An unnamed man with an Irish accent was also in Kappe's office when Dasch arrived.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Sentinels stand on the plot’s four corners: kousa dogwood, favored for its red accents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The Proclaimers, famous for singing with Scottish accents, were formed in 1983 by twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid who are from Auchtermuchty in Fife.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
That meant ditching bright orangy accents for a more subdued facade with many more windows, making the property look more like an office building than a warehouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Quebeckers accused him, among other things, of “glottophobia”—prejudice against dialects or accents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Their flattened accents carry up into our apartment from three stories below.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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Their fins are accented with orange, and they possess a smaller oval tooth patch.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026
The pommel-horse shape is accented with pencil-thin metallic piping and soft, suffused light pools in the hollows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
The spacious kitchen is also accented with rich hardwood flooring, stone design elements, solid alder doors, and dual-pane windows.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025
Baldwin — a formerly accented yoga teacher who with husband Alec Baldwin and their seven baby “Baldwinitos” stars on, not surprisingly, “The Baldwins” — is only part of the cast’s reality TV contingent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Everyone I pass stares at me from a distance and then, as we grow closer, looks down at their feet and mumbles buenas tardes, senorita in heavily accented Spanish.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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Compared to the toolbox angularity of its rivals, the CX-90’s presentation is sleek, urbane, even fancy, with lots of brightwork accenting the front and rear bumpers, rocker panels and grille frame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Three-dimensional roses of all sizes appeared throughout the collection, accenting necklines and adorning shoulders.
From Reuters ● Jul. 4, 2023
Elegant landscaping and pathways, brick patio with gravel and rock accenting, mature trees, two-car carport.
From Washington Times ● May 25, 2023
The jumbo-sized safety pins accenting skirts and dresses and appearing in punk-ish earrings stood out.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
Harley’s words were becoming disjointed and he was accenting the words at the beginning and swallowing the ending sounds until it didn’t sound like English any more.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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