nasally
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Origin of nasally
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Nailing that piercing, nasally, near-falsetto trademark night after night couldn’t have been easy for even a 20-something Axl in his prime.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2023
The shot is being retooled for the Omicron variant and a nasally inhaled version is also in the works.
From Reuters ● Feb. 27, 2023
Yorty pronounced it nasally, and with a hard-G, “Ang,” like “bang,” “huh-luss.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
Contemporary illustrations of Cyrano show him to be relatively well-endowed nasally but never quite reaching the grotesque extremes we find in Rostand.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2022
Covers her mouth a second too late to stop the nasally sound.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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