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articulate

/ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.lət/ noun C2
  1. An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

Plural articulates

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He was hardly articulate as he spoke of it.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 17 · B2
So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 50 · C1
Maximilian tried to speak, but he could articulate nothing; he staggered, and supported himself against the wainscot.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1011 · C1
He wished to articulate a last farewell, but his tongue lay motionless and heavy in his throat, like a stone at the mouth of a sepulchre.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1100 · C1

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