syncopate
Example Sentences
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Most of the songs vamp through a handful of chords as Keys gives her voice room to leap, to curl, to muse, to syncopate; she has rarely sounded so jazzy and improvisatory.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021
Not many, but enough to start infecting celebrations with doubt, to break up the exact time, the exact place, to syncopate something that used to be whole.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2019
During a show-pausing turn in “Mary Poppins Returns,” Lin-Manuel Miranda takes center stage to sing and syncopate, and the movie flickers to life.
From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2018
From 1935 the itch to complicate and syncopate gets to him.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2010
For there the need for quick action, which in life tends to syncopate emotion, does not exist.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
