metronome
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Tina Tallon, a professor of artificial intelligence and music composition at The Ohio State University, explains that a "click track" features clicks or beeps such as a metronome, or other cues to capture rhythm.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
We have become so accustomed to seeing her twirling her left-arm spin like a metronome, picking up wickets for fun, that it is easy to forget she is still only 27 years old.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
These are the bluebloods, the old money of the investment world, steady as a metronome and just as thrilling.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
Mom would sip her coffee slowly and metronome her head back and forth, doing her crossword.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
These structures from quantum impracticality, inherent crystalline metronomes might migrate into our future time-keeping technology.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 4, 2023
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
Subsequent studies showed that a dog’s drooling response could be triggered by a range of unrelated stimuli, from metronomes to electric shocks.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
In coffins for the not dead and not alive, in planked boxes, the metronomes waited to be set in motion.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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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