How to pronounce decimation
Listen to decimation 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.
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“decimation” in real sentences
115 clips in the index · 4 American · 61 British · 4 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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recovered from the decimation—
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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decimation of the Greeks and instead saw the decimation of his own army and left Greece
British Library · hear it here
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The decimation of our epistemic institutions, universities, journalism.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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And this is mourning the decimation of our indigenous languages.
Australian Human Rights Commission · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of decimation. 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.