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- adjective Resembling natural human
speech
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perhaps because they are in overlapping frequencies—from 10 hertz to 2 kilohertz—with the sounds of speech, we are inclined to look for speechlike meaning in them.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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Perhaps because they are in overlapping frequencies—from 10 hertz to 2 kilohertz—with the sounds of speech, we are inclined to look for speechlike meaning in them.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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Breath and vibration, breaking into this silent visual scene, suggest that something speechlike has happened to the representation of the Poet's desire, in oxymoronic tension with the "mute thoughts on the mute walls around" (120).
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They hope to elicit a response in the form of electronic voice phenomena, faint speechlike sounds usually nestled in the background noise on their recordings.
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