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

Catching Starship, combined with SpaceX’s planned spaceport in Louisiana, could position the company to “create a steady cadence of launches in 2027,” Hodulik said in a note to clients on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

She is using the same excited cadence they use when trying to decipher what Bit wants when he sits and stares at them.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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

The voices of his protagonists, which is to say the cadences of their social identities, determine not just the sound but the shape of their stories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

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

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 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

They’re familiar with the musical genres, timbres, modes, and instruments, rhythmic and melodic patterns, and have learned the culturally acceptable cadences, harmonies, texture, and so forth.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

In language as crass and cadenced as gunfire, Mamet turned their man-eat-man philosophy, which some call capitalism, into brutal prole poetry: a poetry of predation, you might even say.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 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

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

The cadencing of a musical phrase in Hawaiian song was marked by a peculiarity all its own.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

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