metronome

And most importantly, the machine is like a metronome, keeping him steady and curbing his impulse to go overboard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The danger of these big moves—which are like a giant metronome that swings over the market—is that they can infect the analytical mind-set needed to successfully navigate markets with the momentum-trading virus.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 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

The rhythm of it could be a metronome for this movie’s plot — it whips us around to the point of delighted collapse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

Francie was so fascinated by the metronome that she found it hard to listen to what Miss Tynmore said and to watch the way she placed Mama’s hands on the keys.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

Ninety percent of bands use backing tracks and metronomes, but we play 100% live.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024

The musicians can practice their melodies and train their lung capacities inside, often to the insistent clacking of metronomes.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

These structures from quantum impracticality, inherent crystalline metronomes might migrate into our future time-keeping technology.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 4, 2023

In its crudest form, this exploitation of 'phasing’ could be demonstrated by setting off two pendulum metronomes at exactly the same time and precisely the same speed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall