(1) It is just news, sent racing round the globe and pursued by an instant cloud of reactive clutter.
(2) One of the observations that a number of commentators have been making about our government is they’ve said ‘your agenda is too cluttered, you’re fighting on too many fronts’.
(3) The messy cupboards and cluttered shelves were like an actual subconscious I could purge of its guilt and pain.
(4) There's a fear that mobile users will reject Facebook ad strategies as clutter on smaller screens.
(5) The user interface feels cluttered at times, and it has a definite learning curve, but it's also easy to carve out a quick and comfortable groove for yourself as you jump between a game and a few different applications.
(6) For many years, we fought in the creeks because we were sidelined even though Nigeria’s wealth comes from here,” said Wilson, thumping a fist on a desk cluttered with awards – mostly from organisations he funds with money the government pays him not to bleed oil pipelines.
(7) They seriously threatened only twice – David de Gea saving in a cluttered first half when Chris Smalling diverted a Jonathan Parr header goalwards and then denying Cameron Jerome, on as a substitute, an equaliser shortly after Van Persie's goal – and remain two points above the bottom three.
(8) He’s doing what he feels is right and that’s why he’s paid to be manager, to make those decisions.” Even as an inexperienced team they should not have been undone by a hopeful punt into a cluttered penalty box by one of the poorer sides at this tournament.
(9) The others were fiddly, trivial-looking plastic things cluttered with buttons and dials, appealing mainly to gadget-obsessed geeks with the time to figure out how to work them.
(10) Their music has long been free of such unnecessary clutter as metaphor, allegory, and poetic conceit.
(11) Election time means satisfying people, and that means money,” said Abdulkadir, sitting in a cluttered tourist shop that also serves as a bureau-de-change in an upmarket Lagos hotel frequented by the city’s elite.
(12) She writes: After two gruelling hours, it was painfully clear that [interest rate] forward guidance, far from increasing clarity, has cluttered up the Bank's intellectual furniture with knockouts, staging posts and all the rest – while giving Britain's ever-ready consumers just the excuse they don't need to go shopping.
(13) I think every shot’s going in,” he said, “and this one was no different.” The shot came on a play Villanova works on every day in practice: Jenkins inbounds the ball toRyan Arcidiacono, he works it up court and forward Daniel Ochefu sets a pick near halfcourt to clutter things up, then Arcidiacono creates.
(14) Blocking-out involves the local people who demolish the old clutter of shacks and rebuild them.
(15) The new experiments used electronic delay lines to simulate echo delay, thus avoiding movement of loudspeakers to different distances and the possible creation of delay-dependent backward masking between stimulus echoes and cluttering echoes from the loudspeaker surfaces.
(16) "There are parents who worry that what used to be a clear two-year run during the sixth form – when you had the chance to do sport and art and music as well as getting into deep study – has become cluttered up by too many modules, too many exams, which have led to too much time being spent weighing what you know and not enough time actually getting to grips with the subject," he said.
(17) This paper demonstrates that theory of signal detectability (TSD) methodology is applicable to bats and uses it to show that an important element of clutter limiting in Eptesicus fuscus and Noctilio leporinus is backward masking of phantom targets by the real echo from the loudspeakers used to generate them.
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(19) My first task is to make sure the room is laid out in an accessible way; there must be good wheelchair access and as little clutter as possible to make it safe for people with a visual impairment.
(20) Distractions, such as the music production business and clutter, such as teddy bears, have gone and healthier food options introduced.
Stuttering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stutter
(n.) The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering.
(a.) Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results suggested that the parent variables that were significantly related to the child's primary stuttering were not the same as those significantly related to her secondary stuttering.
(2) This may be interpreted as support for Kent's (1983) hypothesis that stutterers may be poorer at temporal processing.
(3) The two experiments have replicated and extended, under different conditions, the earlier findings of a letter sequence transcription deficit in stutterers, but the nature of the interference still remains to be clarified.
(4) Contrary to Taylor (1966) there were significant correlations between stuttering and grammatical class even when initial phoneme and word in sentence were held constant.
(5) In a control condition, eight stutterers read one of two matched passages aloud five times in succession.
(6) The consistency with which stuttering tends to occur on the same words in successive readings of a passage, though high enough to warrant the assumption that stuttering is a response to stimuli, is generally far from perfect.
(7) To contribute to the Geschwind-Galaburda theory of cerebral lateralization, we examined the relationship of left-handedness to allergic disorders and stuttering, using epidemiological data of two French samples, one of which (N = 9591) is representative of the French male population between 17 and 24 years of age.
(8) Much of the research dealing with linguistic dimensions in stuttering has emphasized the various aspects of grammar, particularly as these aspects contribute to the meaning of utterances.
(9) Stuttering affects 1% of the adult population, though 5% of children about the age of five develop the condition, with most growing out of it after childhood.
(10) Results support the conclusion that stuttering, seen on the symptomatic level of disfluencies produced, is a prosodic disturbance.
(11) These bipolar scales were derived from words previously judged by speech clinicians as descriptive of stutterers and antonyms of those words.
(12) In all it began with word amnesia or stuttering, and in one to five years impairment of auditory comprehension, and reading and writing difficulties with kanji (Japanese morphograms) appeared.
(13) This paper reviews the various approaches that have been made toward the investigation of speech quality in stuttering treatment.
(14) The results demonstrated predictable trends in speech naturalness during the program, but they also showed that natural sounding speech is not a predictable outcome of a procedure that removes stuttering, controls speaking rate, and exposes clients to transfer procedures.
(15) Finally, no difference was found in the posttreatment naturalness ratings of stutterers rated as mild, moderate, and severe before treatment.
(16) In this article, acoustic analyses are reported which show that the spectral properties of stuttered vowels are similar to the following fluent vowel, so it would appear that the stutterers are articulating the vowel appropriately.
(17) The original headline and first sentence suggested that the GM mice stuttered.
(18) In the present study, surface electrodes were used to describe the perioral reflexes in 7 stutterers and 5 nonstutterers.
(19) On two-dimensional gels, the faulty proteins were shown as a trail of spots with molecular weights similar to those of the authentic proteins but separated in the isoelectric focusing dimension, a phenomenon we call "stuttering."
(20) The home support took out their anger on the referee Mike Dean and it intensified when Maloney, following that straight-on, stuttering run, bent the ball brilliantly beyond Wojciech Szczesny.