cadence
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The good set of results and a small raise in guidance are welcome after concerns were raised about the health of the luxury consumer and about the cadence of Ferrari’s own margin development, it adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
"Post-Kimi K3 and open weights models getting closer to the frontier again, I wonder if Anthropic and OpenAI will be allowed to increase their release cadence by the government," Mollick wrote.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
That step put the Fed on a similar cadence with the European Central Bank, which also has a large, diverse constituency.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
In front of a crowd, Forstag can be halting; he hasn’t yet located his natural cadence, which causes him to sometimes appear a bit hesitant.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
He took great strides, creating a slight wind in his wake, his left arm swinging high with his left leg, his right with his right, in an unusual cadence.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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A language model can imitate Hemingway’s rhythm but not his soul; it can echo Shakespeare’s cadences but not the consciousness that produced them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
His patented lingo, cadences, body language and personal style revolutionized and rebuilt the foundation of modern California rap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
He experiments with new tones and cadences; the beats bounce, the production is subdued, but innovative.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024
In the stentorian 18th-century cadences of historian Edward Gibbon and essayist Samuel Johnson, he painted a heroic portrait of that nation of shopkeepers and saw Britain’s current troubles in light of its glorious past.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
The common was peaceful and sunny; butterflies perched on thistle flowers and grasshoppers serenaded each other with their ceaseless cadences.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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No matter how many times I brought it up, Epiphania always gave the same sad answer in her cadenced, Italian accent: "No, you can't buy it! The house is not on the market!"
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022
The specialists are cadenced and full of adrenaline, so they can get “caught leaning” when the system is out of rhythm.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2021
The cadenced distribution of cotton bolls across the picture just over their heads evokes musical notes written on a staff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
With each cadenced step she took, her tail swung to the rhythm of her paws hitting the snow.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2017
The Raleigh accent is soft and beautifully cadenced, but my brother's is a more complex hybrid, informed by his professional relationships with marble-mouthed, deep-country work crews and his abiding love of hard-core rap music.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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The cadencing of a musical phrase in Hawaiian song was marked by a peculiarity all its own.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright
My wife, who has not the slightest suspicion that I am a Jew, is not a little astonished by this peculiar musical wail, this trilling and cadencing.
From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav
The psychology of rhythm shows its basal value in cadencing the soul.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
The six-four chord may be used at the close as the cadencing tonic six-four chord.
From A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Lehmann, Friedrich Johann
Steadily, lithely, and with never an error the rowers drove through the waves—steadily, and in exact time, their cry arose cadencing each stroke.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis
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