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consonant

[kon-suh-nuhnt] / ˈkɒn sə nənt /


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And the “Laudamus Te,” with its insistent back-and-forth reiteration of the simplest consonant harmonies, sounds like a prefiguration of Virgil Thomson’s “Four Saints in Three Acts.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Now he seems to regret it—though he still hasn’t apologized directly or acknowledged that he was wrong, and is pretending that what he said earlier is consonant with what he’s saying now.

From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2025

There is really no other option, dramatically speaking, or consonant with his character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024

For example, the consonant "da," which is produced by touching the tongue to the hard palate behind the teeth, is needed to produce the word dog.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

When you study the science of philology, you learn the laws governing how a consonant can lose its shape, but it keeps its identity from language to language.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

I had more trouble with voiceless consonants than voiced ones—one of the sample sentences for this type of SD reduced my voice to a whisper on nearly every syllable.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

To create an otherworldly voice, Elordi studied Tibetan throat singing and incorporated the slurred consonants caused by dentures he’d been given for the role.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

Her characters would crash down on consonants, as though landing a plane in the midst of an engine blowout or stretch out vowels in defiance of several laws of physics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

In other words, scientists can predict what combination of consonants and vowels will be produced before the words are actually spoken.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

The old man showed an early knack for consonants.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli


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