cadences

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In walk-and-talk videos, he used Trump’s singsong cadences to freestyle on pop culture topics from Scooby-Doo to Weird Al Yankovic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

The voices of his protagonists, which is to say the cadences of their social identities, determine not just the sound but the shape of their stories.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

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

From Salon • Aug. 30, 2024

He has had to learn the playbook, pre-snap cadences, even how to put his pads on.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024

I retreated to the edge of Gladys’s bed and stared at the curtain leading to the room where Mami and Angelina murmured in soft cadences.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago