metronome
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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
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
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
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
He was lost in the staccato thud of his shoes hitting the pavement, the huff of his breath, the metronome of his heart.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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
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
After a few stressful spring weeks, they now operate more like metronomes.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2022
As such inherent metronomes, time crystals may be a great future asset to precision timekeeping or quantum information processing.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 9, 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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