How to pronounce distinctions
Listen to distinctions 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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“distinctions” in real sentences
564 clips in the index · 155 American · 114 British · 7 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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not on racial distinctions, it's species distinctions.
Center for 21st Century Studies · hear it here
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distinctions are disregarded.
CDC · hear it here
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These distinctions matter.
Federal Reserve · hear it here
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making distinctions between things.
British Library · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of distinctions. 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.