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

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

The half-crazed King, magnificently sung by the ever-disruptive Timur, lusts after Salome by speaking and singing at different speeds he selects on a metronome, as he entices her to type for him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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 ventilator that’s doing my breathing has a soothing rhythm like a metronome, in, out, in, out.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

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