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throatiness

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Just as the genre was moving toward polished sheen, he preferred iron and concrete — rapping with a muscular throatiness that conveyed an excitable kind of mayhem.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2021

Micaela Carosi’s voice has the measure of the title role but tends toward throatiness and is not always precisely deployed.

From New York Times • May 4, 2010

The womanly throatiness can break, like a child's heart, three or four times in a single syllable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rated by many as the best French chanteuse since Yvette Guilbert and Lucienne Boyer, she sings with a feline throatiness and great stylistic elegance.

From Time Magazine Archive

His eyes began to glow and his voice took on the throatiness he used in sermons.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck