"sibilance" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1990 December 23, Christopher Wittke, “Pop Goes 1990”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 23, page 9:",
          "text": "The Pet Shop Boys are yet another synth-pop duo, albeit one that is not quite out of the closet. […] In past interviews, however, they [the Pet Shop Boys] have referred to their sound as \"specifically gay disco,\" and their lyrics have that certain queenly something that lead singer Neil Tennant sings with an adorable sibilance.",
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          "text": "The following exercises help combat sibilance, plosives, lazy tongue, and mouth problems.",
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          "ref": "2006, Barbara Alysen, Electronic Reporter: Broadcast Journalism in Australia, Second Edition, University of New south Wales Press, →ISBN, page 118:",
          "text": "A string of words beginning with ‘s’ will cause sibilance.",
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          "ref": "2009, Jean Ann Wright, M. J. Lallo, Voice-Over for Animation, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 28:",
          "text": "Work to control the sibilance of your s sounds.",
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          "ref": "2012, Michael Zager, Music Production: For Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Second Edition, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 277:",
          "text": "Most often sending the vocal through a de-esser will either eliminate the sibilance or greatly reduce its sound.",
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        "The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality."
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          "ref": "1990 December 23, Christopher Wittke, “Pop Goes 1990”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 23, page 9:",
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