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  • adverb In a subvocal manner.

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Examples

  • Activity recorded from this region was found to be modulated during trials requiring the patients to subvocally produce the past tense forms of verbs or to convert nouns between the singular and the plural, but not during trials in which the word was just repeated.

    Brain activity decoded to play back heard words 2012

  • Reading is memorized with the aid of murmur, mouthing the words subvocally as one turns the text over in one's memory; both Quintilian and Martianus Capella stress how murmur accompanies meditation.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Agamben would seem, so we'll find, to have given over his emphasis on voice, whose role — and with it, for us, that of subvocally engaged textuality — seems no longer directly engaged by a philosophy of the potential.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • He set it in place and sent the message subvocally.

    The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

  • We clambered into the oxcart, and Xenophon drove away with us, chatting subvocally the while.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

  • She tapped the side of her throat and spoke subvocally microphone embedded there.

    Delta Search Shatner, William 1997

  • "Ouch," he muttered subvocally, but even then it was the voice of an aqua duck, a sound like a cross between a goblin holding his nose and the burble of noxious gas percolating through sewer water.

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

  • "Ouch," he muttered subvocally, but even then it was the voice of an aqua duck, a sound like a cross between a goblin holding his nose and the burble of noxious gas percolating through sewer water.

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

  • He chewed on his lip, swearing almost subvocally as he fought with the controls.

    Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

  • Both parents counted subvocally, but long before the twelve seconds which would have justified action had passed, the five-year-old's head showed through the other opening in the deck.

    The Nitrogen Fix Clement, Hal, 1922- 1980

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