How to pronounce detectives
Listen to detectives 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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“detectives” in real sentences
504 clips in the index · 58 American · 48 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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the cosmic ray detectives
The Royal Society · hear it here
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What is AI Insect Detectives?
NSF · hear it here
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by ex-scotland yard detectives
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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But the detectives kept digging.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of detectives. 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.