articulation

“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

Mr. Mokyr’s 2016 book, “A Culture of Growth,” is perhaps his clearest articulation of these ideas, but it’s an older book, “The Gifts of Athena,” that I find myself reaching for much more often.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

The idea of the unitary executive theory and the articulation of it arose around the time that Ronald Reagan was elected president.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025

The children she saw had all kinds of articulation problems, some because of physiological defects like cleft palates or tied tongues.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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