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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph indicating the general matter to be discussed later in that paragraph.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: authorship, broadcasting, communications, film, journalism, literature, media, publishing, television, writing
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Broader terms: sentence
noun
a sentence that states the topic of its paragraph
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sentence
History
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