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Recent Examples of intonation
Another posted that Eliana was demonstrating her skills of prosody—the patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
The product — which will live on Peacock’s web browsers, iOS, and iPad apps — will mine Michaels’s long sportscasting career at NBC to synthesize his intonations and pair that synthesized commentary with video from the Olympic events that aired the previous day.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 26 July 2024
Meanwhile, the right side is more broadly connected, suited for processing melodies and the intonation of speech.
—Hysell V. Oviedo, The Conversation, 4 June 2025
When visitors have passed through, Margouleff has been the one to set up the guitars—adjusting the action and pickups and intonation.
—Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
The product — which will live on Peacock’s web browsers, iOS, and iPad apps — will mine Michaels’s long sportscasting career at NBC to synthesize his intonations and pair that synthesized commentary with video from the Olympic events that aired the previous day.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 26 July 2024
Meanwhile, the right side is more broadly connected, suited for processing melodies and the intonation of speech.
—Hysell V. Oviedo, The Conversation, 4 June 2025
When visitors have passed through, Margouleff has been the one to set up the guitars—adjusting the action and pickups and intonation.
—Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intonation
Noun
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His thought experiments lead sometimes to stone walls and sometimes to flashes of insight or hilarity, always with an un-erasable Jewish inflection.—
Jon Raymond
August 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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New inflections in compute memory have immense potential to improve AI computing's energy efficiency.—
Sundeep Bajikar,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Griffith produced a Meta Quest 3 virtual-reality headset and a pair of earphones, and, after a moment, the dweller was no longer in his dwelling but soaring over the Swiss Alps, near the Monte Rosa massif, in the company of a couple of paragliders with Austrian-ish accents.—
Nick Paumgarten,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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There’s open-pore wood trim with backlit accents, brushed aluminum trim, a wide range of ambient lights and three-zone climate control.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Chronic stress from the threat of separation can harm those children’s mental and physical health, according to Gutierrez.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
16 Aug. 2025
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Lurking Below Nature Reserve Perseid Meteor Shower: Peak Time, Locations to See Shower Tonight To measure this stress, the researchers used two key indicators.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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Although a lawyer’s lifetime achievements were considered, emphasis was placed on their most recent accomplishments.—
Liane Jackson,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Dress for Success accepts donations for clothing, with an emphasis on professional clothing.—
Lillian Metzmeier,
The Courier-Journal,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Intonation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intonation. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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