drumbeat

Example Sentences

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News of the planned Disney job cuts add to the ongoing drumbeat Hollywood has endured for the last few years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Foreign central-bank buying — along with a drumbeat of calls for lower U.S. interest rates and the potential long-term debasement of the dollar — is “very hard to stop.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 22, 2026

Truist analyst C. Patrick Scholes said that while the CEO departure wasn’t a 100% surprise, “there was not a particularly loud drumbeat from angry investors and/or activists demanding action from the board.”

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Meanwhile, a drumbeat of defections have given the party a dose of that elusive political currency: momentum.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

Ged's spirits lifted with the first lifting of the forty long oars, and the drumbeat that kept the stroke made a brave music to him.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin