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tongue-tied

[tuhng-tahyd] / ˈtʌŋˌtaɪd /


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Yet, that she made it at all makes every frame feel personal, and you hear her affection for the cadence of her occasionally tongue-tied subjects.

From Los Angeles Times

Romy and Samuel have safe words, yet our own national conversation about sexual ethics gets tongue-tied whenever it tries to define right and wrong.

From Los Angeles Times

Make it five minutes,” the software would, in theory, be able to figure out what the tongue-tied person meant to say.

From Los Angeles Times

Giamatti watchers may have a hard time imagining the actor tongue-tied.

From New York Times

Speech production is a complex neural phenomenon that has left researchers explaining it tongue-tied.

From Science Daily