How to pronounce states
Listen to states in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“states” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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states in the United States.
Census Bureau · watch from 7:32 · hear it here
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States As gen United States.
Dept of Justice · watch from 14:16 · hear it here
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Cesium atoms move between two energy states, higher energy states and lower energy states.
NIST · watch from 0:42 · hear it here
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in the united states in most states or in all states i should say
NTSB · watch from 93:50 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of states. 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.