motif
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A.I. has been a key motif of Leo’s nascent papacy, from early speeches to advisory groups to the reception of tech execs who’ve approached the holy man on their own.
From Slate β May 28, 2026
“Girl” is the only example in this series to feature his best-known motif: a little girl reaching wistfully for a drifting balloon, Gouzer said.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 21, 2026
Ever since, skin bones have remained a recurring motif in evolution.
From Science Daily β May 21, 2026
This shirt goes deep, with an Aztec-inspired motif.
From BBC β Apr. 22, 2026
When a motif returns, it can be slower or faster, or in a different key.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Across these works, striking motifs recur—strange images and phrases.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 18, 2026
More elaborate designs, including hatched bands, grids, and diamond-shaped motifs, also showed evidence of rotation, translation, repetition, and "embedding," i.e., the ability to build hierarchical levels of signs within the same surface.
From Science Daily β Aug. 9, 2026
Following his previous film, “The Neon Demon,” “Her Private Hell” finds the director returning to some of his beloved motifs, such as impossibly glamorous yet noir-tinged spaces populated by blank-faced beauties in wickedly chic clothes.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 23, 2026
Birdsong all around the world, they say, is made up of combinations of these motifs - three types of trill, three types of whistle, chaotic notes and harmonies.
From BBC β Jul. 23, 2026
Chandresh cannot decipher any of it, cannot even tell if the marks are broken into words or simply continuous strings of motifs.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Vocabulary lists containing motif
Poetry: Literary Devices
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 4
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Vocabulary to Describe Literary Devices
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