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How to pronounce touch a chord in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms strike a chord
Type of arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise

Examples of touch a chord

touch a chord
He's happy the novel is starting to touch a chord with many people.
From the dailyherald.com
The idea of what inspires us seemed to touch a chord with readers, and I decided to give it another look, only without restricting it to Obama.
From the foxbusiness.com
They attribute the film's sweeping international success in large part to its timing and themes that touch a chord with Western audiences.
From the dallasnews.com
In an English class taught by Courtney Stuckwisch, the searing hard-times images of a Langston Hughes poem touch a chord, and the students look up eagerly.
From the nytimes.com
Sometimes you write something that seems to touch a chord with readers, and in 25 years of writing for the SMH, I don't think I have ever had a greater, nor more poignant response than this piece.
From the smh.com.au
To shear a sheep is to touch a fading chord of Western culture.
From the nytimes.com
That idea seems to strike a deep chord within us, to touch some primal longing.
From the independent.co.uk
The back-story to all this will touch a familiar chord with anyone who has watched TV and realised how the global release schedule of shows is anathema to the new Internet economy.
From the uk.techcrunch.com
Obviously, it is partly to do with the pleasure of a satisfying plot, but it also seems to touch a deeper psychological chord.
From the telegraph.co.uk