cadence
Example Sentences
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The company has continued signing deals to power AI data centers, but the cadence of the deals has been too slow to generate enthusiasm.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
Bazinet said given Netflix’s past cadence of price increases — it last raised its prices in January 2025 — it would be on schedule to do it again by October.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026
Culhane’s impression of the conservative pundit was pretty impressive, capturing his cadence and habit of using rhetorical questions — I hope we see it again.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026
Soon after, Mr. Fortner’s trio, with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Marcus Gilmore, lend the tune a distinctly New Orleanian cadence Toussaint once described to me as the “strut of the street.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
Perhaps it was in the cadence of his speech, and this had the effect of making men, and women too, tell him things they would not tell to relatives or close friends.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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