canon
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For Girl Like Me, PinkPantheress wanted the piece to have a canon sequence, Keflezgy says, which is where dancers perform the same movement but in a staggered way.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
The part of me that’s a sucker for goal-setting and self-transformation also wondered: What if, rather than reject the parenting canon, I were to embrace it?
From Slate • May 10, 2026
Families need to read aloud together again to build children’s affection for books and to build a shared library—a family canon to inform the character of a home.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Levy said she was influenced by the fragmentary literary canon while writing “Flat Earth.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
Round — In a canon, obviously every section of the canon must "fit" with the section that comes after it.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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