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staccato

[stuh-kah-toh] / stəˈkɑ toʊ /


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The book’s 47 staccato chapters jump from one subject to another without much of a discernible pattern.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The progression of the façades from warm rose to pink-cream to mauve-green is knit together by the blues and sienna of the windows, anchored by the staccato pink and green water below.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

There was a kind of rhythm, a fast staccato he could get.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2025

How England survive his staccato approach and educated fingers will go a long way to deciding the series.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025

And she would summon the waiter to her side, her voice sharp and staccato, cutting the air like a saw.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier




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