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metronome

[me-truh-nohm] / ˈmɛ trəˌnoʊm /
NOUN
chronometer
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Trade the metronome as it swings back and forth, but don’t let the hypnotic sound lull you into complacency.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 2026

"We're now starting to understand how the uterus acts as both a muscle and a metronome to ensure that labor follows the body's own rhythm."

From Science Daily Jan. 13, 2026

These are the bluebloods, the old money of the investment world, steady as a metronome and just as thrilling.

From MarketWatch Oct. 9, 2025

Who is the new-ball metronome to be the TikTok generation's Chris Woakes?

From BBC Feb. 28, 2025

He ran steadily, mechanically, his barrel legs pumping like a metronome.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

The night sky contains remarkably precise "cosmic clocks": pulsars, which are dense neutron stars that emit radio pulses at steady intervals, ticking like perfectly timed metronomes.

From Science Daily Oct. 15, 2025

The musicians can practice their melodies and train their lung capacities inside, often to the insistent clacking of metronomes.

From New York Times Jul. 1, 2023

After a few stressful spring weeks, they now operate more like metronomes.

From Washington Post Jun. 30, 2022

As such inherent metronomes, time crystals may be a great future asset to precision timekeeping or quantum information processing.

From Scientific American Mar. 9, 2022

In coffins for the not dead and not alive, in planked boxes, the metronomes waited to be set in motion.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury




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