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articulation

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




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The toy features elbow and wrist articulation, which allows for stimming and other gestures.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

Rarely if ever have I heard a performance so crisp in articulation and lush in musicality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

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

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

To give you some idea of the difference that articulation makes, though, here are audio examples of a violin playing a legato54 and a staccato55 passage.

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




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