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How to pronounce “incarceration”

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Pronunciation guide for incarceration

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of incarceration with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: How America's public schools keep kids in povertythe incarceration rates,
Definition summary: (chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

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How America's public schools keep kids in poverty

the incarceration rates,

[Noun]
(chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
(surgery, dated) A strangulation, as in a hernia.
A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

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