vowel
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But Team Italy didn’t want to add players, forward Nick Saracino said, “just because you have a vowel in your name.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
I mean, this is us lining up sine waves, “Minority Report”-style, and seeing where a vowel or a syllable is sort of falling out of place and giving the actor’s accent away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
While most humans would also fail to answer the Wason task correctly, it is unlikely that this would be because they didn't know what a vowel was.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
"Blackburn still retains many other vowel features that make it unique, and changes like this often pave the way for further linguistic evolution in the future," she said.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2023
He muddles his vowel sounds, drops some consonants and even whole syllables.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was Britain's favourite artist - and a man of trenchant views, expressed in the broadest of Yorkshire vowels.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Leto’s grumbling Brit-inflected baritone is an unrecognizable concoction of trilled r’s and plummy vowels — and the best performance he’s done in years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
To go American, Mielewska said it's all about getting the Rs and the vowels right.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Its opening poem, “Digging,” feels earthbound with its low-pitched vowels: “Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
A name with more than two vowels in it running for President!
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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