enunciating

verb

present participle of enunciate
1
as in speaking
to utter clearly and distinctly enunciate your words, and then you won't have to repeat them so often

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2
as in announcing
to make known openly or publicly today the President enunciated a new foreign policy

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3
as in uttering
to express (a thought or emotion) in words a paper that enunciates the goals of the environmental organization

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Recent Examples of enunciating But Calloway’s performance—her manic and sunny disposition, her inability to read the room, her insistence on over-enunciating the T’s in words like Latin and written—was something to behold. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 23 June 2026 The Justice Department and the Democratic attorneys general of 16 states and the District of Columbia submitted an amicus brief enunciating the same basic point. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Jan. 2026 Yasmina spent much of her time enunciating Uz-bek-i-stan for people, spelling it out. — Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025 But by enunciating general principles, practicing them on numerous examples, and pointing to relevant case law, Chemerinsky and Gillman educate our judgment. — Jonathan Marks, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enunciating
  1. speaking
  2. announcing
  3. uttering
  4. saying
  5. declaring
  6. talking
  7. articulating
  8. publishing
Verb
  • Judges mingled with customers at a coffee shop before speaking at the domed, ornate Westmoreland County Courthouse.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
  • The mistake is believing there are only two visual entertainment languages worth speaking.
    — Hernan Lopez, Variety, 10 July 2026
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  • At her press conference announcing the request for criminal investigations, Sheinbaum also called for petitions to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
    — Mauricio Torres, CNN Money, 12 July 2026
  • In early 2024, this writer first broke the story about Toyota announcing that the Century would evolve from a single flagship limousine into a standalone ultra-luxury marque and sit above Lexus as Toyota’s ultra-luxury brand.
    — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
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  • The other was a tearing beauty, a creature so lovely that one look at her sent young men’s blood pressure skyward and set them to uttering wild, hoarse cries and tearing telephone directories apart with the bare hands.
    — John Madson, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
  • All season, Shamea and Porsha have circled each other, barely uttering a direct word, but the tensions seep to the rest of the group, trickling into every interaction.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 29 June 2026
Definition of uttering
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  • Despite the fireworks these teams have produced in the knockout stage, the odds are saying to expect a tight, low-scoring semifinal.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 12 July 2026
  • Crump, the family’s attorney, cast doubt on the notion that Wells may have drowned – saying the teen was a strong athlete and knew how to swim.
    — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Definition of saying
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  • Comic-Con’s lineup since the pandemic has been cyclical, with the biggest names staying away one year — and some blogs declaring the convention dead — and then a large push the next year.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2026
  • Earlier this year, the actor celebrated alongside players on the court after the New York Knicks won the NBA championship, later declaring in a video obtained by ESPN’s SportsCenter that the title meant more to him than an Academy Award.
    — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
Definition of declaring
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  • Cholowsky visited Chicago for a few days in early June, talking to coaches and executives, hanging out with players and listening to Jerry Reinsdorf’s baseball stories.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 12 July 2026
  • Yet nobody could remember ever seeing the man in a cowboy hat before 2024, when he was spotted talking to residents about lawsuits against the local dump.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of talking
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  • In that sense, La Villeggiatura wasn’t introducing a trend so much as articulating an overlooked category.
    — Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The presence of a man who may have been a Muslim suggests that, in a canvas that also contains Jews and Christians, the Dutch artist was articulating a message of tolerance.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 26 June 2026
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  • Since then, the state agency has been collecting and publishing the compensation data of more than 2 million workers across more than 5,000 public agencies — including special districts, universities and state departments.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
  • Scott announced the formation of his own record label and music publishing company, Cactus Jack Records, on March 6, 2017.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026
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