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staccato

[stuh-kah-toh] / stəˈkɑ toʊ /


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“Does the question disturb you?” he continued in a series of staccato questions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

The progression of the façades from warm rose to pink-cream to mauve-green is knit together by the blues and sienna of the windows, anchored by the staccato pink and green water below.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

The band emerged in a flicker of static and staccato strings, accompanied by a lone saxophone, before breaking into Happiness.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

Tilson Thomas beat out those three emphatic staccato orchestral chords — Let!

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2025

I turn around, heart beating out a staccato rhythm against my ribs—not from fright, but from a wild kind of hope that I ain’t never felt before.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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