resonance
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No matter how gleeful Siskel and Ebert used to look sparring over movies, their industry was built on intellectual debate in pursuit of cinematic resonance, not schadenfreude.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
His proposed solution is “radical transparency” — a familiar Silicon Valley mantra with an ironic resonance given Theranos’ notorious culture of secrecy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Those words have particular resonance now because, compared with those exceptional statistics, there are some far less impressive ones this season.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The analysis focused on participants who had undergone magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, allowing researchers to measure changes in fat deep inside the abdomen.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The resulting jangling, sparklingly dissonant sound, which is brittle, full of edgy attack and a kind of out-of-tune resonance, would have been - literally - unimaginable, even terrifying to audiences of the day.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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In a press release, the track was described as "a tender country song detailing broken family ties, that holds wider resonances".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
In Sondheim’s body of work, Okrent searches for the autobiographical resonances that Sondheim himself mostly disdained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Although such alignments are unlikely at any given moment, Titan's outward migration sometimes creates these resonances.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
Part of the enduring power of Vasari’s rinascita might derive from the mystical resonances within the word.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
“You choose your behaviors based on their metaphorical resonances ...” I said.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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