syncopate

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Mr. Smith’s syncopated keyboard style reflected the influence of his early idol, Professor Longhair, who combined boogie-woogie with habanera and rumba rhythms.

From Washington Post

It’s where the Puerto Rican Sharks and the White, blue-collar Jets pour all their resentments, defiance and cultural pride into a dance battle that’s inflamed by Leonard Bernstein’s Latin jazz and a fiercely syncopated mambo.

From Washington Post

Most of the songs vamp through a handful of chords as Keys gives her voice room to leap, to curl, to muse, to syncopate; she has rarely sounded so jazzy and improvisatory.

From New York Times

The song “Every Letter” moves like a quickened heartbeat, caffeinated by a driving cello line and syncopated, pounding drums.

From Los Angeles Times

A lovely painting that syncopates rectangles of black, red and teal hangs here next to a larger weaving with the same geometric arrangement.

From New York Times