cadence
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"That cadence will continue to grow year on year," Ortberg said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
They had the cadence of a catechism, and evolved into a set of rules recited like a prayer by Yamel, her brother and their aunt around the kitchen table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Additionally, executives have debated whether to change the release cadence of certain shows to improve engagement, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
They can be technically proficient, maybe even a little funny, but there is always an underlying cadence of the uncanny valley that I still doubt Suno v6 pro et al. or whatever has totally overcome.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
He kept cadence and didn’t answer for a full minute.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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A language model can imitate Hemingway’s rhythm but not his soul; it can echo Shakespeare’s cadences but not the consciousness that produced them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
His patented lingo, cadences, body language and personal style revolutionized and rebuilt the foundation of modern California rap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
He experiments with new tones and cadences; the beats bounce, the production is subdued, but innovative.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024
He has had to learn the playbook, pre-snap cadences, even how to put his pads on.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024
The melodic, swooping movement of her Jamaican patois was quickly replaced by the more stable cadences of American English.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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Their days are cadenced only by breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as a few medical appointments and sporadic detention hearings.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
No matter how many times I brought it up, Epiphania always gave the same sad answer in her cadenced, Italian accent: "No, you can't buy it! The house is not on the market!"
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022
The cadenced distribution of cotton bolls across the picture just over their heads evokes musical notes written on a staff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
Screaming or loud talk does not have the same impact as a slow and measured and cadenced statement where each word sinks to a slightly lower octave.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2020
As Obama spoke, compassionate and cadenced, American flags fluttering behind him, Blaine shifted, sighed, leaned back on the couch.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The fifth, when in the lowest voice, should be used as in two-part counterpoint, except when used in V43 or the cadencing tonic six-four chord.
From A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Friedrich Johann Lehmann
Listening fearfully, he heard through these a murmurous baritone cadencing: Talbot Potter declaiming the inwardness of "Roderick Hanscom"; and then—oh, bells of Elfland faintly chiming!—the voice of Wanda Malone!
From Harlequin and Columbine by Booth Tarkington
My wife, who has not the slightest suspicion that I am a Jew, is not a little astonished by this peculiar musical wail, this trilling and cadencing.
From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles
The cadencing of a musical phrase in Hawaiian song was marked by a peculiarity all its own.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
The six-four chord may be used at the close as the cadencing tonic six-four chord.
From A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Friedrich Johann Lehmann
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