cadence
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They envision a time when a choreographed and predictable cadence of trucks arrive at stores loaded with pallets of goods needed at that moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
New DoT rules will make it easier to increase space launch cadence.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Catching Starship, combined with SpaceX’s planned spaceport in Louisiana, could position the company to “create a steady cadence of launches in 2027,” Hodulik said in a note to clients on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Pattinson portrays Hansen as a caricature of himself, accentuating the journalist’s unmistakable vocal cadence to remove any distance between “To Catch a Predator” and the man behind the show.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
I unintentionally slowed down, so shocked I couldn’t make my feet move with proper cadence.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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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
He experiments with new tones and cadences; the beats bounce, the production is subdued, but innovative.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024
“He’s mastered everything in terms of the offense — the plays, the cadences, and the defensive structure with protections,” Harbaugh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
Minaj kept her loopy bars in the newer “FTCU” on a tight leash, yanking her cadences tightly for effect over the twirling beat.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
In Miserere mei he repeatedly causes the flow of the music to come to rest on cadences, affirming its centre of gravity.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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 Jefferson style was fluid, lyrical, cadenced, and melodious.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The psychology of rhythm shows its basal value in cadencing the soul.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
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 Friedrich Johann Lehmann
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 Lewis Wallace
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 Nathaniel Bright Emerson
The fifth, when in the lowest voice, should be used as in two-part counterpoint, except when used in V43 or the cadencing tonic six-four chord.
From A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Friedrich Johann Lehmann
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