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How to pronounce “contamination”

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Pronunciation guide for contamination

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of contamination with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: How Disgust Drives Your Politicsthat we jointly construe as protecting us from contamination.
Definition summary: The act or process of contaminating.

Example 1 of 8

How Disgust Drives Your Politics

that we jointly construe as protecting us from contamination.

[Noun]
The act or process of contaminating.
Something which contaminates.
(linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
(linguistics, etymology) The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
(textual criticism) The intermingling of readings from multiple sources by a copyist.

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