articulation

“The extreme amongst the vulgar in London doubtlessly is, to omit the r altogether—to convert far into fah, hard into hahd, cord into cawd,” wrote Benjamin Smart, an articulation expert, in 1836.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

If you’ve ever skied in the afternoon light, when it’s difficult to see any articulation in the slope, just white everywhere you look, you can understand how having those points of reference would be helpful.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

But he was moved so deeply by what he was reading—so enthralled by the man’s articulation of that nation’s ideals—that he’d devote the rest of his life to studying them both.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

One of the key challenges that the doctrine poses to regulatory governance is its malleability, thanks to the high court’s poor articulation of the philosophy’s scope and application.

From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2025

Since there is no articulation between them, they sound like a single note.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

“He would just send me the craziest flamenco pieces and say, ‘Transcribe this, learn these articulations, learn these runs, and next week you will sing it in front of me.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The researchers envision stringing together even more actuators in parallel arrays so they can produce both very fine and very forceful articulations on the macro scale.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023

Concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef’s playing was especially beautiful in its aching solo stretches, her articulations brimming with character, as well as the suite’s thrilling closing climb.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

It is a sentence that plainly communicates the articulations of class and respectability that are mapped on both young men, designating the contrasting boundaries of each boy’s disposability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

The tempo and rhythm are not affected by articulations; the staccato notes sound shorter than written only because of the extra space between them.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones