phonic
Example Sentences
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His team’s series of experiments showed that whales produce their wide repertoire of sounds with the same organ — the phonic lips in their nose, which vibrate much like a larynx does in humans.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2023
They also imaged phonic lip operation and anatomy in dead stranded porpoises.
From Reuters ● Mar. 2, 2023
They saw that the phonic lips would briefly separate and then collide back together, causing a tissue vibration that would release sound into the surrounding water.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You revolve around the idea of phonic passing and “code switching”.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2018
In England the phonic method best known is probably Miss Dale's.
From The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray
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