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tone

noun as in pitch, volume

noun as in color

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noun as in condition of the body

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His words were matter-of-fact, but his tone made me feel like I shouldn’t have mentioned it.

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Kiffin, wearing a plaid top that appeared stolen from the Brady Bunch wardrobe closet, softened the tone of his departing statement, now saying he respected Ole Miss’s decision to exclude him from playoff coaching.

Meanwhile, the second producer Waypoint, real name Jacob Donaghue, confirmed on social media that AI was used to "give our original vocal a female tone".

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The score is a tone poem for cascading piano, string quartet and sighing clarinet lines.

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Some of the structural issues, at least, are settled, but a chaotic conference could set the tone and roadmap on where the start-up party goes from here.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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