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noun 
  1. The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.
1870 But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner -- or Southron, according to Sir Walter's starchier way of it -- would be wholly modern, in place of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it is. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=641224063&tag=Twain,+Mark,+1835-1910:+Life+on+the+Mississippi,+1870&query=phrasing&id=TwaLife Chapter 46.
  1. (music) How words being sung are united with the music into a single whole.
1891 The grand difficulty in the opening andante movement of Casta Diva lies in its broad, sustained , in the long, generous undulation of its rhythm, which with most singers drags or gets broken out of symmetry. Jenny Lind conceived and did it truly. Joel Benton, Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=93153955&tag=Benton,+Joel:+Life+of+Hon.+Phineas+T.+Barnum,+1891&query=phrasing&id=BenLife Chapter 17.
  1. The way a particular musical composer puts together notes to form longer passages.
  2. The way a conductor structures a musical performance, with changes in tempo, volume, or emphasizing one or more instruments over others.
verb 
  1. (present participle of, phrase)
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