cadence

What makes this tightrope even harder to navigate is that these legal developments don’t happen at the predictable cadence Americans might want from their election procedures.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Gerald said that before the auction, one editor who read the “Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body” proposal expressed concern about possible AI use, flagging passages in which the tone and cadence raised questions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Vance’s efforts to seem hip come across as forced, as if he has never met a fellow millennial and can only approximate their lingo and cadence from reading old magazine reviews of movies like “Clueless.”

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

The increased cadence of releases “supports our view that Meta Superintelligence Labs has moved beyond rebuilding the company’s training and post-training stack and into a faster, more predictable product cycle,” according to Deutsche Bank’s Black.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

I think of Flaubert, who spent most of his adult life in the same French village, or Emily Dickinson, whose poems echoed the cadence of the local church bells.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Mr. Levine plays a far gentler and more original character than we’re used to from him; Jennifer Jason Leigh, as Nicky’s mother, Victoria, has long turned her dying cadences into the voice of dread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

He experiments with new tones and cadences; the beats bounce, the production is subdued, but innovative.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

“He’s mastered everything in terms of the offense — the plays, the cadences, and the defensive structure with protections,” Harbaugh said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024

Minaj kept her loopy bars in the newer “FTCU” on a tight leash, yanking her cadences tightly for effect over the twirling beat.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

This type of cadence is more common at pause-type cadences than at full-stop ones.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

With each cadenced step she took, her tail swung to the rhythm of her paws hitting the snow.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2017

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

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

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

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

Steadily, lithely, and with never an error the rowers drove through the waves—steadily, and in exact time, their cry arose cadencing each stroke.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace