How to pronounce cusp
Listen to cusp in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“cusp” in real sentences
511 clips in the index · 87 American · 149 British · 14 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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cusp of significant reform.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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on the cusp of prediabetes.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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cusp of something truly momentous
Australian Human Rights Commission · hear it here
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abstraction kind of really came about at the kind of cusp of modernity at the cusp
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of cusp. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.