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cadence

[keyd-ns] / ˈkeɪd ns /


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"Accelerating our Moon mission ordering cadence and launch opportunities enable us to move quickly to learn, iterate, and improve."

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

The analyst also drew attention to an ongoing “talent war” at SaaS companies, noting that Salesforce “has recently seen a steady cadence of senior departures to AI-native companies.”

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

Spoken in a colloquial mix of English and Armenian, the recording became the introduction to “Canopies,” a song with the hushed, rocking cadence of a lullaby that Korkejian wrote from her grandmother’s perspective.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

The semiconductor and software supplier doesn’t follow a set cadence in granting executive equity awards, according to securities filings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

The New York Athletic Club went briefly to the head of the pack, but Penn, pounding the water at a high cadence of forty strokes per minute, quickly snatched the lead back.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

In the stentorian 18th-century cadences of historian Edward Gibbon and essayist Samuel Johnson, he painted a heroic portrait of that nation of shopkeepers and saw Britain’s current troubles in light of its glorious past.

From Seattle Times Mar. 8, 2024

Their words melt into the sound of water lapping against children—the steamy Accra air softening even the crisp cadences of their accents.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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

The Raleigh accent is soft and beautifully cadenced, but my brother's is a more complex hybrid, informed by his professional relationships with marble-mouthed, deep-country work crews and his abiding love of hard-core rap music.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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 Tarkington, Booth

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 Karpeles, Gustav

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 Lehmann, Friedrich Johann

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 Wallace, Lewis

The psychology of rhythm shows its basal value in cadencing the soul.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley




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