articulation
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Morrison’s articulation of the formative effects of trauma—both familial and historical—had a defining influence on the American imagination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
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
Carlaco’s articulation of linked fates “across race, across gender, across class” recalls the “race-class narrative” developed in 2018 by Anat Shenker-Osorio and Ian Haney López.
From Salon ● May 10, 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
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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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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