grace note
noun
1
: a musical note added as an ornament
especially
: appoggiatura
2
: a small addition or embellishment
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In a sweetly surprising grace note, many of the bathrooms have colorful wallpapers with attractive bird, butterfly, animal and floral imagery.
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Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Despite that notable change, watching One Battle After Another is much like the experience of reading Pynchon, who lurches from high comedy to stomach-turning naturalism and punctuates plot-heavy sequences with little grace notes of character portraiture.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
But her grace notes weren't enough.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
And for Jamie and Donna, who had different stories but the same disease, to have that happen simultaneously was kind of another grace note.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 27 June 2025
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Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Despite that notable change, watching One Battle After Another is much like the experience of reading Pynchon, who lurches from high comedy to stomach-turning naturalism and punctuates plot-heavy sequences with little grace notes of character portraiture.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
But her grace notes weren't enough.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
And for Jamie and Donna, who had different stories but the same disease, to have that happen simultaneously was kind of another grace note.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 27 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for grace note
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“Grace note.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grace%20note. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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