articulation

“We need a new articulation of what conservatives believe,” he writes, and “a fresh argument for how a rising generation can apply these principles to the challenges of today.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

“The extreme amongst the vulgar in London doubtlessly is, to omit the r altogether—to convert far into fah, hard into hahd, cord into cawd,” wrote Benjamin Smart, an articulation expert, in 1836.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

It’s a natural articulation of the depth that your soul chose to crave.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

That's closely akin relates to my own 2021 proposal that public health — framed as a collective articulation of caring — could play a similar role:

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

It was just an articulation, tender and meaningful, of the thing that had caught us both by surprise.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Much of Mr. Roberts’s movement for that quartet of dancers, despite some upper-body torsioning and unison pacings, presents repeated articulations for their arms, suggesting the flapping of wings, which grows monotonous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

While pertinent, these spelled-out articulations ring like segments from a lecture crammed into the crevices of an overstuffed plot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

The researchers envision stringing together even more actuators in parallel arrays so they can produce both very fine and very forceful articulations on the macro scale.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023

Concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef’s playing was especially beautiful in its aching solo stretches, her articulations brimming with character, as well as the suite’s thrilling closing climb.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

What you will find here is a short list of the most common articulations: their names, what they look like when notated, and a vague description of how they sound.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones