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
In the Gluck rehearsal, Palumbo cautioned the group not to sit on one word’s final vowel, so that the next consonant could be more explosive.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
Even better is one syllable and one vowel: Bush.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
But the kids, with the exception of some open vowels here and there, sounded like pretty generic young Americans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
Investment firm Abrdn will add the vowels back into its name after dropping them in a rebrand that was widely mocked.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
She stumbled over some of the Hebrew; in places the text was so old, the letters were worn away, and in others she couldn’t remember where the vowels were supposed to go.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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