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tempo

noun as in beat, rhythm

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The basic plan of attack in 2017 was also developed under Obama, although Trump sped up the tempo by changing the rules of engagement.

Teammates are able to work together, drafting and setting a tempo up the mountain.

There are other reasons for the tempo change as well, and not just strategic ones.

You don’t have to run at every opportunity to win in college basketball19 — 12 of the last 13 non-UNC men’s national champions have sported adjusted tempos that ranked 100 or below — but Williams insists on doing it anyway.

During Williams’s tenure, Carolina has finished in the top 10 in overall adjusted efficiency margin 11 times, and it has played at the fastest tempo among the top 10 nine of those times.

Two minutes later, Crown and his brother pulled up to the hospital in their sister’s ‘85 Ford Tempo.

I realized quite early on that it would be different in that respect—a slower tempo.

Turn Up the TunesStudies have found that up-tempo music can make you feel more energetic and put you in a better mood.

At the same time, it has escalated the tempo of aerial bombardment and resumed its scorched earth campaign against civilians.

Rather it is the time to increase the size and tempo of guerrilla attacks even through the coming, bitterly cold Afghan winter.

I don't play anything up to tempo under her—always slow, slow, slow.

The “Bullier” orchestra will interest you; they play with a snap and fire and a tempo that is irresistible.

Thus the pitch is treated by him as modern notation treats the tempo, viz.

Let us try if it is not possible to obtain a clearer notion of this mysterious tempo rubato.

Above all, however, we have to keep in mind that the tempo rubato is a genus which comprehends numerous species.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tempo, such as: cadence, momentum, pace, velocity, bounce, and downbeat.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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