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
Trade the metronome as it swings back and forth, but don’t let the hypnotic sound lull you into complacency.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 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
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 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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Music - Middle School
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