cadence
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“With our steady cadence of innovation and disciplined operational execution, we enter the second half of 2026 with regained momentum and remain confident in our ability to grow at the high end of MedTech.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
“The company-wide cadence was too rigid and didn’t reflect the different ways teams work and didn’t bring people together for the moments that could have the most impact,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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
They remained there, tucked into his memory, deep within a cave of abstract thoughts: information and ideas about pawns and squares to be used, discarded, or ignored—all in perfect cadence and synchronicity.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Mr. Levine plays a far gentler and more original character than we’re used to from him; Jennifer Jason Leigh, as Nicky’s mother, Victoria, has long turned her dying cadences into the voice of dread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
The voices of his protagonists, which is to say the cadences of their social identities, determine not just the sound but the shape of their stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
He experiments with new tones and cadences; the beats bounce, the production is subdued, but innovative.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024
He has had to learn the playbook, pre-snap cadences, even how to put his pads on.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024
It was a legitimate sound of home, one that would remind the Meecham children of their youth more strongly than the singing bells of ice cream trucks or the cadences of lullabies.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Their days are cadenced only by breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as a few medical appointments and sporadic detention hearings.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
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 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
Screaming or loud talk does not have the same impact as a slow and measured and cadenced statement where each word sinks to a slightly lower octave.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2020
As Obama spoke, compassionate and cadenced, American flags fluttering behind him, Blaine shifted, sighed, leaned back on the couch.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
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 Lehmann, Friedrich Johann
Listening fearfully, he heard through these a murmurous baritone cadencing: Talbot Potter declaiming the inwardness of "Roderick Hanscom"; and then—oh, bells of Elfland faintly chiming!—the voice of Wanda Malone!
From Harlequin and Columbine by Tarkington, Booth
The psychology of rhythm shows its basal value in cadencing the soul.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
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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