drumbeat

Example Sentences

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Neither side has allowed the steady drumbeat of military exchanges between them to end the talks being mediated by Pakistan, Qatar and others.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

The war is a distant drumbeat, its threat ever audible to Steele’s underemployed, eminently draftable characters from 9,000 miles away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

But the growing drumbeat of failed deals has led to redemptions by individual investors, punishing the stocks of fund managers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

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

I couldn’t have known it then, but these questions would come to dominate the next decade of our lives, pulsing like a drumbeat behind almost everything we did.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama