metronome
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And most importantly, the machine is like a metronome, keeping him steady and curbing his impulse to go overboard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The danger of these big moves—which are like a giant metronome that swings over the market—is that they can infect the analytical mind-set needed to successfully navigate markets with the momentum-trading virus.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 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
In between: Kershaw, a metronome of excellence every fifth day, and not nearly enough else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 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
Dancers swirl, the artist repeatedly climbs over chairs like a man going nowhere and a group of Man Ray-style metronomes slowly goes out of synchronization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
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 its crudest form, this exploitation of 'phasing’ could be demonstrated by setting off two pendulum metronomes at exactly the same time and precisely the same speed.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing metronome
Music - Introductory
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"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Nine
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Music - Middle School
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