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syllables

noun

plural of syllable

as in licks

the smallest amount or part imaginable you're not making a syllable of sense

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Recent Examples of syllables Those 20 words--all but three of them single syllables--summon a flood of thoughts and images and memories and ruminations. — Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026 Other times, Horton acknowledged a Mamukelashvili three by using just his last name, experimenting with which of the many syllables to emphasize. — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 Solfege is a music-teaching method that uses syllables to represent notes on a musical scale. — Kaicey Baylor, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026 The vapors that had risen from warm bodies in the pews would have carried syllables mixed with candle-soot, distilled as condensation on the chapel windows. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026 Each person had a small whiteboard and marker, dividing the word up into syllables and adding symbols that showed how to pronounce certain vowels and letters. — Lina Ruiz september 21, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Sep. 2026 Their head coach would pace around them before belting out three syllables. — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026 The goddess Gayatri, a divine manifestation of the Gayatri mantra, is described in the Mahanarayana Upanishad as having five heads, along with three feet, six abdominal sections, and 24 syllables. — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026 Those four syllables, Va-len-ti-no, were enough to set hearts aflutter. — Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

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But for the most part, both are getting their points across, landing a few licks and, so far, avoiding the sort of major gaffe or damaging moment that could reshape the race.

— AJC.com, AJC.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Shafee operates in a languid, free-form zone throughout, trading his funky licks for loose, spacious lines and tolling, repetitive chords.

— Reed Jackson, SPIN, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of licks

Noun

Church bells, owl hoots and sprinklers keeping the grass hydrated during this dry spell fill the space between the occasional motor trudging along a main road devoid of commotion.

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Ranging from the sound of emergency sirens and birds screeching to low grunts and guttural hoots, their vocalizations reverberate from a sanctuary in the hot, dry hills of the Santa Clarita Valley, north of Los Angeles.

— Jaimie Ding, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026

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As plastic in the body breaks down into smaller and smaller bits — known as microplastics and nanoplastics — the potential danger increases, said Wei Min, a Columbia University chemist who co-authored the study.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
If successful, bits of dust, soil and rocks from Phobos will arrive on Earth in 2031.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of bits

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Like a lot of his contemporaries, Skino’s raps depend on rhythmic stasis and the context and fervor of his disses more than his ability to assemble a rhyme scheme or a clever punchline.

— Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 27 Oct. 2026
Here was Jay, drawing a line between the increasingly popular molly raps of the 2010s with his own penchant for luxury garments.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026

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