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articulation

[ahr-tik-yuh-ley-shuhn] / ɑrˌtɪk jəˈleɪ ʃən /




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Morrison’s articulation of the formative effects of trauma—both familial and historical—had a defining influence on the American imagination.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

It will take a fresh articulation for global engagement to lead America away from walls and toward bridges.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 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

The idea of the unitary executive theory and the articulation of it arose around the time that Ronald Reagan was elected president.

From Slate Feb. 21, 2025

It was just an articulation, tender and meaningful, of the thing that had caught us both by surprise.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Much of Mr. Roberts’s movement for that quartet of dancers, despite some upper-body torsioning and unison pacings, presents repeated articulations for their arms, suggesting the flapping of wings, which grows monotonous.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 13, 2025

While pertinent, these spelled-out articulations ring like segments from a lecture crammed into the crevices of an overstuffed plot.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2024

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

Hyaline cartilage is also found at the ends of long bones, reducing friction and cushioning the articulations of these bones.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

His legs move with gawky and mechanical articulations, knees bending while his hands hang at his sides.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith




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