How to pronounce proverbial
Listen to proverbial 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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“proverbial” in real sentences
234 clips in the index · 31 American · 37 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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the proverbial baby with the proverbial backwater uh bathwater.
Federal Reserve · hear it here
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with a proverbial bullet.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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in the proverbial trenches.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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like the proverbial phoenix.
mpiMathSci · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of proverbial. 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.