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articulation

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




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It will take a fresh articulation for global engagement to lead America away from walls and toward bridges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

A commanding figure at 6 feet 2, he played with a sound and an articulation to match his visual image.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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

A tie is not really an articulation marking.

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

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

It is a sentence that plainly communicates the articulations of class and respectability that are mapped on both young men, designating the contrasting boundaries of each boy’s disposability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

His legs move with gawky and mechanical articulations, knees bending while his hands hang at his sides.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith




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