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articulation

[ahr-tik-yuh-ley-shuhn] / ɑrˌtɪk jəˈleɪ ʃən /




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“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

One of the key challenges that the doctrine poses to regulatory governance is its malleability, thanks to the high court’s poor articulation of the philosophy’s scope and application.

From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2025

Carlaco’s articulation of linked fates “across race, across gender, across class” recalls the “race-class narrative” developed in 2018 by Anat Shenker-Osorio and Ian Haney López.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

The word articulation generally refers to how the pieces of something are joined together; for example, how bones are connected to make a skeleton or syllables are connected to make a word.

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

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

The tempo and rhythm are not affected by articulations; the staccato notes sound shorter than written only because of the extra space between them.

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




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