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rhythm

[rith-uhm] / ˈrɪð əm /


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The nearby Zumaque I well began production in 1914, and it continues to rise and fall in a steady rhythm.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Shake Your Booty!” wants its grieving main character to get back out there on the floor, but the movie never finds a consistent rhythm for her to try it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Orélien, who immigrated to Montreal after the Haiti earthquake in 2010, said in his statement that his style draws from Haiti and the Caribbean “where poetry, images, repetition and rhythm carry a living message.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Time crystals are unusual physical systems whose internal behavior repeats in a regular rhythm over time, even though they are not being driven by a repeating external signal.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

A dreamy rhythm can mean love or joy.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Her “Congestion Pricing” starts pensively and austerely but layers rhythms over Mr. Hurst’s solid bass foundation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

He meant that music is nonrepresentational—it speaks in a language of rhythms and harmonies, and any meaning we ascribe to it is our own projection, informed by context or habits of mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

"My traditions are Haitian and Caribbean. The images, the repetitions and the rhythms are the living word, they are my own," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"We found loss-of-function mutations in certain genes that regulate circadian rhythms, suggesting they may have adapted to the extreme light cycles of summers and winters in northern latitudes."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Choral music in which the parts have mostly the same rhythms at the same time is homophonic.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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