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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pronounce.

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Examples

  • I've been noticing lately how irritating the high pitched whistle that happens when McCain pronounces the "S" sound.

    McCain defends his 'bearings' 2008

  • Margolies, who owns the Willys name pronounces it WIL'-ees, specializes in Jeep replacement parts but his company is not otherwise in the lineage or affiliated with the original firm.

    unknown title 2011

  • Margolies, who owns the Willys name pronounces it WIL'-ees, specializes in Jeep replacement parts but his company is not otherwise in the lineage or affiliated with the original firm.

    unknown title 2011

  • Margolies, who owns the Willys name pronounces it WIL'-ees, specializes in Jeep replacement parts but his company is not otherwise in the lineage or affiliated with the original firm.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • How ironic, then, that a political party whose very name pronounces its ambition to speak for and on behalf of all Maori should end up throwing its support behind the direct political descendants of the colonial authorities who enlisted the kupapa.

    Kiwiblog 2008

  • Keven, a self-professed aspiring "urban rapper", pronounces "Palin" wrong, so for that reason alone, this is suspect.

    Mike Stark: Satire? Sincere? Brilliant!!! 2008

  • When the "anonymous Internet critic" pronounces "Finnegan's Wake" unfit for consumption by magpie students prone to imitating its style, I wonder if said critic refers to the tune upon which Joyce based his novel?

    More of the overrated ... Frank Wilson 2008

  • He does not reason, he 'pronounces'; and he will pronounce even when he is ignorant or wrong.

    Conquered by Macaulay Trevor-Roper, Hugh 1973

  • An ephipany, he says, this being the latest word he’s become enamored with, a word he pronounces with such reverence, I cannot bear to correct him—and, in fact, I do find his latest interpretation of Savage startling, invasive, staking out new psychological territory.

    Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

  • An ephipany, he says, this being the latest word he’s become enamored with, a word he pronounces with such reverence, I cannot bear to correct him—and, in fact, I do find his latest interpretation of Savage startling, invasive, staking out new psychological territory.

    Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

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