lilt
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He speaks softly, with a lilt he picked up when his family moved to Australia from Lebanon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
In the second cast, Christine Shevchenko fell far short of Ms. Teuscher’s finesse, but she essayed the opening “Preghiera” movement with more of its requisite lilt and shimmer than Ms. Teuscher did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Australian is also uniquely incompatible with the American lilt, she said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
But the result was thin, devoid of intonation or personality, and it had an American lilt.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
A soft, musical lilt came into his voice.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
“Life’s so fun, life’s so fun,” Gavin lilts on “Silk Chiffon,” which features Phoebe Bridgers and has caromed across TikTok, soundtracking cookie dough tutorials, hangovers and odes to crushes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
Getting digital voices to sound human, with the many required lilts and inflections, is something that AI can still struggle with.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
In a career spanning four decades, Washington instructed actors to speak not just in national dialects but also in regional and local lilts, even historical ones.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
In nearly every scene a carol or hap-happy song sung in major key lilts behind the frenzied action.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2019
He doesn’t talk, he lilts, his words taking to the air like birds.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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