drumbeat
Example Sentences
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Firms large and small are shedding jobs, and there is a steady drumbeat of redundancy announcements in sectors ranging from automotive to factory equipment makers.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
By this point in his life, Beethoven has had it with weapons, the drumbeat of soldiers, the addictive emotion of trumpet calls to action.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
Foreign central-bank buying — along with a drumbeat of calls for lower U.S. interest rates and the potential long-term debasement of the dollar — is “very hard to stop.”
From MarketWatch • Feb. 22, 2026
Even after Mr. Smith took control of the two investigations, the drumbeat of win-at-all-costs continued.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
Everywhere she ran, she heard the same words, like a drumbeat, in her mind: alone in the world, alone in the world.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.