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

"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

Colin's mother shook her head rhythmically, like a disapproving metronome.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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

After a few stressful spring weeks, they now operate more like metronomes.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 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