AUTHENTIC VOICE collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of authentic and voice
authentic
adjective
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/ɔːˈθen.tɪk/us
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/ɑːˈθen.t̬ɪk/
If something is authentic, it is real, true, or what people say ...
voice
noun
uk
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/vɔɪs/us
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/vɔɪs/
the sounds that are made when people speak ...
Examples of authentic voice
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No apparent mental or physical barrier is to be acknowledged in the pursuit of the authentic voice of the user.
In order to retain the authentic voice of the text, editorial 'smoothing out' has been kept to a minimum.
He dogs my footsteps in these matters, and if we get things wrong we can always call upon him for the authoritative and authentic voice.
Here we have the authentic voice: he will have to be reported to high command.
How is the authentic voice of the tribe made to be heard?
Here are some examples of the authentic voice of the independent care sector in my area.
Then, one would have thought, one would have listened to the authentic voice of the seadog.
He spoke with the authentic voice of his constituency and industry.
It is the authentic voice of those who wish to destroy parliamentary democracy and the parliamentary process by force of arms.
If it is not to survive, let us have the authentic voice of the local authorities in their decision on the matter.
They emerge from the mass to which they return, having spoken once or twice with the authentic voice of the ruled.
There we have the authentic voice of elected dictatorship: the majority want something to be done, so it should be done.
If there are such organisations, they should be used as the authentic voice of the consumer.
We are now hearing the authentic voice that speaks for the context in which the swamping remark was made.
I have given you the authentic voice of the north, and if they think otherwise let them test it out.
We shall have a blend of advocacy, support services, and, crucially, the authentic voice of local people, which will be independent and challenging.
As we are both councillors, we hope to put across the authentic voice of local councillors today.
That is the authentic voice of the trade unions speaking.
His seemed to be the authentic voice of conservatism in the community.
Unhappily, they must be treated as the authentic voice of those movements.
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