syncopate
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Most of the songs vamp through a handful of chords as Keys gives her voice room to leap, to curl, to muse, to syncopate; she has rarely sounded so jazzy and improvisatory.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Not many, but enough to start infecting celebrations with doubt, to break up the exact time, the exact place, to syncopate something that used to be whole.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2019
During a show-pausing turn in “Mary Poppins Returns,” Lin-Manuel Miranda takes center stage to sing and syncopate, and the movie flickers to life.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2018
From 1935 the itch to complicate and syncopate gets to him.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2010
Syncopate a square column, and leave an adhesive salve; syncopate the salve, and leave a person found in a bindery; syncopate again, and leave a prayer.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 by Mary Mapes Dodge
“The way that he syncopates and phrases, if it’s not codified, then he escapes a dialogue about jazz piano history.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
Langston syncopates his verbal abstractions in double time and then triple time, delivering conundrums like: “Creative manners to skip and erase from moment to moment/abstract, realist, most problematic version of futurism.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
But when they’re outdoors, at least, the color syncopates the seams.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2017
He retains the MacNooder eloquence and syncopates it, polishing his quips for quotation, studying his audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
The theme again is "America" but it is mournful and bleeding now until the third movement, "1926," takes it up again and syncopates it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The jungle music they had a hand in creating is still to this day characterised by its speed, syncopated rhythms, breakbeats and ragga, funk and reggae samples.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
At the end of the show, a stunning reading of “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” revealed the instinctive ease with which she can navigate the sweet, syncopated phrasing of Dominican merengue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
House music, the post-disco form with a 4/4 rhythm and rubbery syncopated basslines, is the genre at the center of the LP, but there is plenty of variety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
In court, Sheeran's team accepted that the two songs share a similar syncopated chord pattern.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
His heart juddered and syncopated inside his chest, and if he could have screamed, he would.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
The song is a masterclass in production, pulling and syncopating a sample from iconic dance hall tune “Coolie Dance Riddim,” released by Jamaican producer Cordel Skatta Burrell in 2003.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Eotvos composed “Angels” with speech morphing into song, syncopating percussion and electronic keyboards.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2017
Faced with Minnie Riperton’s kitschy, overblown “Give Me Time,” he comes up with a beautifully elliptical response, alternately swooning and syncopating, injecting a full minute of genuine pathos.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2016
Ragtime, the new music invented by black musicians, was shaking up the straightforward rhythms of the previous century and syncopating them irresistibly.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
One of them near him was breathing in a see-saw, drilling tone, whilst another kept syncopating this song with a sharp and shrill tsit, tsit.
From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones
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