cadences

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He couldn’t navigate transitions into and out of baks, the introductory rhythmic cadences of Senegalese sabar music.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Now speak it,’” Tami reflects, his cadences sounding in her voice.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

He experiments with new tones and cadences; the beats bounce, the production is subdued, but innovative.

From Salon • Aug. 30, 2024

In the stentorian 18th-century cadences of historian Edward Gibbon and essayist Samuel Johnson, he painted a heroic portrait of that nation of shopkeepers and saw Britain’s current troubles in light of its glorious past.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

“So where were we, before I behaved so rudely?” he asked in the gentle cadences of an earlier century.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer