"I always hated my accent growing up, often trying to over-enunciate words to prevent sounding like the people around me, " she remembers.

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But the reality is this: you need to speak solemnly, deliberately and enunciate properly in order to reduce the number of errors you see.

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Mr Blair is the first prime minister since the second world war to enunciate a detailed philosophy of British power in the modern world.

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You heard the President enunciate clearly that one of the explicit reasons mentioned in very early recruiting material from al Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula was the existence of Guantanamo Bay.

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Tap a word to make Shatner strongly enunciate it.

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Criminologists say that fear of crime often acts as a psychological sponge absorbing other anxieties that are hard to enunciate, such as concern over rapid social change, immigration, deteriorating values, fraying communities and so forth.

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Exposure to parents and other relatives who speak Korean has given Kim some knowledge of the language -- she can generally understand the subject matter of the conversation -- but she can't read it and doesn't enunciate well.

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Remember to enunciate and speak clearly.

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They're in front of the camera because they want to be, telling stories about life in the Shin Bet's moral and operational shadows for reasons that clearly include self-justification the settling of scores against those who ignored their advice or turned against their agency but, just as clearly, a desire to enunciate their passionately held beliefs.

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