cadence

A cadence where the number of transistors on a given piece of silicon doubled roughly every two years took hold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

New DoT rules will make it easier to increase space launch cadence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

They can be technically proficient, maybe even a little funny, but there is always an underlying cadence of the uncanny valley that I still doubt Suno v6 pro et al. or whatever has totally overcome.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

That technology is what has helped SpaceX keep costs down and improve its launch cadence over the years.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026

As its name suggests, this is considered the strongest, most final-sounding cadence.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

A language model can imitate Hemingway’s rhythm but not his soul; it can echo Shakespeare’s cadences but not the consciousness that produced them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

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

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

Jackson’s ringing oratory to the delegates at that year’s Democratic convention built with the cadences and rhythm of his years as a Baptist preacher.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024

Minaj kept her loopy bars in the newer “FTCU” on a tight leash, yanking her cadences tightly for effect over the twirling beat.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

Not in the Capitol accent, but in the rougher cadences of home.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

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 Jefferson style was fluid, lyrical, cadenced, and melodious.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

The psychology of rhythm shows its basal value in cadencing the soul.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall

My wife, who has not the slightest suspicion that I am a Jew, is not a little astonished by this peculiar musical wail, this trilling and cadencing.

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles

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