How to pronounce parentheses
Listen to parentheses 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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“parentheses” in real sentences
337 clips in the index · 115 American · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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eliminate the parentheses, but you could put parentheses.
freeCodeCamp.org · hear it here
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detour, brief parentheses.
State Department · hear it here
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2times 2x parentheses 2x tomato
Mr. Powell's House of Math · hear it here
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to move the parentheses right so and the parentheses is the blue line so by moving
Kevin Passino · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of parentheses. 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.