articulation
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“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
If you’ve ever skied in the afternoon light, when it’s difficult to see any articulation in the slope, just white everywhere you look, you can understand how having those points of reference would be helpful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026
Rarely if ever have I heard a performance so crisp in articulation and lush in musicality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
One of the key challenges that the doctrine poses to regulatory governance is its malleability, thanks to the high court’s poor articulation of the philosophy’s scope and application.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2025
No explicit articulation of those assumptions had been necessary in a national forum before 1790, because no frontal assault on slavery had been made that required a direct or systematic response.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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
The tempo and rhythm are not affected by articulations; the staccato notes sound shorter than written only because of the extra space between them.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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