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articulation

[ahr-tik-yuh-lay-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

If you’ve ever skied in the afternoon light, when it’s difficult to see any articulation in the slope, just white everywhere you look, you can understand how having those points of reference would be helpful.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

But he was moved so deeply by what he was reading—so enthralled by the man’s articulation of that nation’s ideals—that he’d devote the rest of his life to studying them both.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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

Since there is no articulation between them, they sound like a single note.

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

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




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