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vocalize

[voh-kuh-lahyz] / ˈvoʊ kəˌlaɪz /


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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

When they found each other again, they started to vocalize and re-bonded with each other, according to officials with the humane society.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

After what had happened with Sam, I didn’t say a word for almost a full year; there was just no way to vocalize that kind of pain.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

Take, for example, a chimp who vocalizes and pulls at the bars of their enclosure when someone approaches.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2024

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

“And I believe the Board of Governors would benefit from having somebody who is aware of these issues and vocalizes them in their deliberations.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2020

“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

Mr. Masefield vocalizes Masefield sentences with the breath of Romans.

From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy

But they rarely actually vocalized it to one another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025

Some of the individuals who at the time vocalized support for Peck have since reneged.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024

These vocalizations agitated Rani, who circled and vocalized in a brief burst before collapsing.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

At the press opening for the Metropolitan Museum’s beyond-beautiful “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E.,” five red-robed monks chanted Pali blessings, the vocalized equivalent of oceanic silence.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

Kendra realized the problem before Seth vocalized it.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

"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

Her lovely, ethereal vocalizing briefly infuses the show with the heart and soulful spirit that is conspicuously absent from Mr. Coen’s writing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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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