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I can't pronounce the German words properly, but they called it erhöhte Befragungtechniken, which means "enhanced interrogation techniques."

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  1. transitive verb To use the organs of speech to make heard (a word or speech sound); utter.
  2. transitive verb To say clearly, correctly, or in a given manner: learning to pronounce French; pronounced my name wrong.
  3. transitive verb To represent (a word) in phonetic symbols.
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  • The general officers lamented the sentence which the usages of war compelled them to pronounce, and never perhaps did the Commander-in-Chief obey with more reluctance the stern mandates of duty and policy. —  Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2
  • Listen to my son, Max, pronounce the French word livre d'or and the following example sentence: —  French Word-A-Day
  • They should also be taught to pronounce the Latin words correctly, and distinctly. —  RORATE CÆLI
  • I can't pronounce the German words properly, but they called it erhöhte Befragungtechniken, which means "enhanced interrogation techniques." —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
  • It doesn't really matter how you pronounce the Japanese word for continuous improvement through —  Gemba Panta Rei
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  1. Middle English pronouncen, from Old French prononcier, from Latin prōnūntiāre : prō-, forth; see pro-1 + nūntiāre, to announce (from nūntius, messenger; see neu- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English pronouncen, from Old French prononcer, French prononcer = Spanish Portuguese pronunciar = Italian pronunciare, pronunziare, from Latin pronuntiare, proclaim, publish, from pro, forth, + nuntiare, announce, from nuntius, that makes known: see nuncio. Cf. announce, denounce, enounce, renounce.
 

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/prəˈnaʊns/
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