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How to pronounce paren

“paren” pronunciation in American and Australian English

Listen to paren 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.

“paren” in real sentences

15 clips in the index · 10 American · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. the Federal Aviation Administration number one require that principal operations inspectors paren POI paren

    NTSB

  2. attributes close paren as much as price?

    FTC

  3. gene where one part of the paren gene makes it into the fusion Gene and the

    The Royal Society

  4. microscopic images and manual Liberation analyze maps to study their textures manual assembles and paren sequences

    Geoscience Australia

Why real speech

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