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How to pronounce emphases

“emphases” pronunciation in American and British English

Listen to emphases 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.

“emphases” in real sentences

79 clips in the index · 7 American · 1 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. all four of these emphases.

    CDC

  2. We understand emphases may be different.

    The Obama White House

  3. different emphases to different spaces in the

    Andreas Mueller

  4. What was it about that the had libertarian socialist emphases?

    Anarchism Research Group Loughborough

Words that sound like “emphases”

Words one sound away from emphases — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of emphases. 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.

Nearby words

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