Peter Sokolowski
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first heard Jun 2026
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Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Other words descended from loqui include colloquial, eloquent, soliloquy, and ventriloquism.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's the word of the day for july fourteenth.
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Today's word is yaw spelled Y A W.
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Yaw is a verb.
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When it's used for the action of a ship, aircraft, spacecraft, or projectile, it means to move to the left or right, especially in an uncontrolled manner.
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More broadly, yaw is used as a synonym of alternate to mean to change from one to another repeatedly.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from time.
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The out of control motion radiated down to the spacecraft itself, which began yawing and pitching in response to the force.
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In the heyday of large sailing ships, numerous nautical words appeared on the horizon.
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Yaw is one such word.
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Its origin isn't exactly known, but it began turning up in print in the sixteenth century, first as a noun meaning movement off course or side to side movement, and then as a verb.
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For centuries it remained a sailing word, often alongside pitch, to have the front end rise and fall, with occasional extended use as the
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as a synonym of the verb alternate.
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When the era of airplane flight dawned, much of the vocabulary of sailing found new life in aeronautics, and yawing was no longer confined to the sea.
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Nowadays, yaw, pitch, and roll are just as likely to be used by pilots and rocket scientists to describe the motion of their crafts.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 13th.
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