cadence
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Gerald said that before the auction, one editor who read the “Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body” proposal expressed concern about possible AI use, flagging passages in which the tone and cadence raised questions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The increased cadence of releases “supports our view that Meta Superintelligence Labs has moved beyond rebuilding the company’s training and post-training stack and into a faster, more predictable product cycle,” according to Deutsche Bank’s Black.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
When he speaks of Likho, he speaks with a tender cadence and dignified countenance, as if he were his own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Post-Kimi K3 and open weights models getting closer to the frontier again, I wonder if Anthropic and OpenAI will be allowed to increase their release cadence by the government," Mollick wrote.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
The cadence of it is pleasant to me now, and this spin around the track feels easy.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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Mr. Levine plays a far gentler and more original character than we’re used to from him; Jennifer Jason Leigh, as Nicky’s mother, Victoria, has long turned her dying cadences into the voice of dread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
He experiments with new tones and cadences; the beats bounce, the production is subdued, but innovative.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024
“He’s mastered everything in terms of the offense — the plays, the cadences, and the defensive structure with protections,” Harbaugh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
Shesol added: “You’re absorbing not just the rhythms and cadences of speech, but you’re absorbing a worldview.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
This introductory course cannot go very deeply into this subject, and so will only touch on the common terms used when referring to cadences.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Their days are cadenced only by breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as a few medical appointments and sporadic detention hearings.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
No matter how many times I brought it up, Epiphania always gave the same sad answer in her cadenced, Italian accent: "No, you can't buy it! The house is not on the market!"
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022
The specialists are cadenced and full of adrenaline, so they can get “caught leaning” when the system is out of rhythm.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2021
The cadenced distribution of cotton bolls across the picture just over their heads evokes musical notes written on a staff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
The Raleigh accent is soft and beautifully cadenced, but my brother's is a more complex hybrid, informed by his professional relationships with marble-mouthed, deep-country work crews and his abiding love of hard-core rap music.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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The six-four chord may be used at the close as the cadencing tonic six-four chord.
From A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Friedrich Johann Lehmann
The fifth, when in the lowest voice, should be used as in two-part counterpoint, except when used in V43 or the cadencing tonic six-four chord.
From A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Friedrich Johann Lehmann
Listening fearfully, he heard through these a murmurous baritone cadencing: Talbot Potter declaiming the inwardness of "Roderick Hanscom"; and then—oh, bells of Elfland faintly chiming!—the voice of Wanda Malone!
From Harlequin and Columbine by Booth Tarkington
Steadily, lithely, and with never an error the rowers drove through the waves—steadily, and in exact time, their cry arose cadencing each stroke.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace
The psychology of rhythm shows its basal value in cadencing the soul.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
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