dictation

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Recent Examples of dictation Inspiration comes at her over multiple channels, and dictation from the Muse seems not to be one of them. Matthew Gurewitsch, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025 Certain advanced features, like replying to notifications with voice dictation, may be limited to Android phones. Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2025 People across Ukraine sit and listen to a dictation of a famous work by a Ukrainian author. Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 6 Jan. 2025 Once a year a national dictation event is held. Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 6 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dictation
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Noun
  • Israeli military rule would last nearly four decades, during which Hamas emerged as a splinter of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in the 1980s, until a 2005 disengagement.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
  • Naturally, this rule tends not to apply to celebrities.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Their scorching hot start has been the result of a long lineup, run suppression and an energetic style of play that wears out other teams on both sides of the ball.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The film highlights many issues that remain relevant even decades after the case - the suppression of the media and misuse of laws to crush dissent.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Murphy brought the jury back into the courtroom and read them the Allen charge, a set of instructions given to a jury that believe it’s deadlocked.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 12 May 2025
  • Follow a healthcare provider's recommendations or label instructions when taking matcha.
    Ross Phan, Verywell Health, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Navigators calculate their position by keeping track of their starting point, direction, speed and time at sea.
    The Conversation, The Conversation, 14 May 2025
  • While the 'legitimate interest' assessment is always a multi-factor test, all factors seem to point in the wrong direction for Meta.
    Ashley Belanger – May 14, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • That leaves ‘financial repression’ - forcing US citizens or their agents (pension funds, insurance companies, banks) to hold US Treasuries.
    Kevin Coldiron, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
  • Foreign students appear to have replaced the immigrant union leaders of the 1950s as the targets of government repression.
    Rick Baldoz, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Trump retaliated by announcing punishing tariffs and a sweeping prohibition on U.S. visas for Colombian officials.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 8 May 2025
  • Like DeSantis, state legislators in support of the prohibition called it a matter of personal choice and pointed out that most toothpastes and many mouthwashes contain fluoride.
    Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 May 2025

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