drumbeat
noun
drum·beat
ˈdrəm-ˌbēt 
1
: a stroke on a drum or its sound
also
: a series of such strokes
2
: vociferous advocacy of a cause
3
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I could hear the drumbeat of a parade down the street.
a dizzying drumbeat of interviews in the hours following her winning of the Academy Award
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And the Biden campaign has brought in several surrogates to make the pitch for the president's reelection, contributing to a steady drumbeat of news coverage.
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Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2024
But amid a steady drumbeat of missteps and scandal, the AfD’s future seems murkier.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Get Citation Request Reprint Permissions Play Download Article Ransomware attacks, election interference, corporate espionage, threats to the electric grid: based on the drumbeat of current headlines, there seems to be little hope of bringing a measure of order to the anarchy of cyberspace.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
The tidy tropes of our prehistory have collapsed under the weight of evidence: there is no single missing link that bridges apes and humankind, no drumbeat march of progress toward a predestined goal.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
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Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2024
But amid a steady drumbeat of missteps and scandal, the AfD’s future seems murkier.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Get Citation Request Reprint Permissions Play Download Article Ransomware attacks, election interference, corporate espionage, threats to the electric grid: based on the drumbeat of current headlines, there seems to be little hope of bringing a measure of order to the anarchy of cyberspace.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
The tidy tropes of our prehistory have collapsed under the weight of evidence: there is no single missing link that bridges apes and humankind, no drumbeat march of progress toward a predestined goal.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
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drumbeat
noun
drum·beat
ˈdrəm-ˌbēt
: a stroke on a drum or its sound
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