vocalize
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Either way, you’ll need to vocalize some boundaries, but I’d go about it differently depending on who this directive is coming from.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
They also vocalize to tell their chicks they are back at the nest with food and, seemingly, to cheer on their babies when they’re learning to fly.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024
“So, I went up on my medicine and I see my therapist. I try to see her every Wednesday, and I try to vocalize a lot when I’m feeling overwhelmed.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
“It’s an outlet for some kids to be able to outwardly express and vocalize something that’s bothering them,” she said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
I was trying to think of some way to vocalize this epiphany when Judy came back with the drinks.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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The lights flash on as Springsteen vocalizes, finishing the sentence: “War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.”
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
He traverses the stage, wrapping a feather and fabric concoction by the costume designer Marianne Fassler around his body, as he vocalizes mournfully: a requiem for a new generation.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
It’s a tale of sound; the song of a solitary whale that vocalizes at a unique frequency, 52 Hertz, that no other whale—as the story goes—can seemingly understand.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2021
“I don’t want press to put your name next to mine, we’re on different lines,” she vocalizes while casually plucking a pastry from a Donuts and Coffee stand in the middle of the mall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2020
Then she said, in her abrupt way, "What vocalizes do you sing?"
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
These vocalizations agitated Rani, who circled and vocalized in a brief burst before collapsing.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Because the bats spend so much time huddled together and fly so quickly, it can be hard to identify them or figure out which bat vocalized.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2023
Whatever the intent of bearing witness to her story, the men vocalized accountability and the desire to heal.
From Salon ● May 9, 2023
It’s not entirely clear how the two parts of “Family Happiness” speak to each other, but they do expose a contrast between emotionally detached tasks and dreams vocalized by a group.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
More of the crowd was awake now, and many of them vocalized their support with claps and cheers.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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They communicate by touching each other with their trunks, smelling each other and vocalizing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
"It's reacting, it has both eyes open, it's vocalizing, but it's incredibly uncertain and it's scared," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
It wasn’t until recent weeks that people began really vocalizing their animosity.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026
Hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped from public markets after prominent CEOs and analysts started publicly vocalizing concerns about an AI bubble.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
Still, decisions about crescendos and decrescendos, tempo, and score reading have to be made, but there are endless possibilities for vocalizing and playing these child-centered compositions.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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