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Recent Examples of backbeat
Their descriptions and accounts have been the backbeat as the franchise moved from Candlestick Park to the shores of McCovey Cove in 2000.
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Jayson Stark, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Just like the drum machine is a tool for musicians to enhance the backbeat of a song, Provenonce enhances, not replaces, the job of an individual or corporate marketing team.
—Larry Dvoskin, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
For more than 15 years, Adrian Younge has provided the backbeat for a large swath of Black entertainment — literally.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 16 Apr. 2025
Along with resonate vocals from both, credit Mars’ rhythmic instincts for including drums that power the urgency of the song’s lyrics, with fills nudging the chorus instead of existing merely as a backbeat.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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Jayson Stark, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Just like the drum machine is a tool for musicians to enhance the backbeat of a song, Provenonce enhances, not replaces, the job of an individual or corporate marketing team.
—Larry Dvoskin, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
For more than 15 years, Adrian Younge has provided the backbeat for a large swath of Black entertainment — literally.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 16 Apr. 2025
Along with resonate vocals from both, credit Mars’ rhythmic instincts for including drums that power the urgency of the song’s lyrics, with fills nudging the chorus instead of existing merely as a backbeat.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backbeat
Noun
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But Allar’s lack of rhythm in his drops affected his ball placement, which sabotaged several drives.—
Dane Brugler,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
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In lieu of a musical score, their dramatic rhythms shape each scene, resulting in simmering tensions that emerge gradually and organically, as Nourou and Maja refuse to acknowledge the personal and professional grievances that prevent them from forging a lasting love.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Companies such as OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Hume AI, for example, are building text-to-voice models that can whisper, laugh, and affect a broad range of emotional cadences.—
Webb Wright,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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Fans will always be notified more than 48 hours before their purchasing window opens, but the cadence will vary, FIFA told The Athletic; there will not be new time slots, nor new batches of emails, every single day.—
Henry Bushnell,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The only change for 2025 is that the pit lane speed limit has increased from 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour) to 49 miles per hour (80 kilometers per hour), following the circuit’s widening of the pit lane by one meter.—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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In 2023, meeting a household’s daily power needs required 45 cubic meters of ec3.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Backbeat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backbeat. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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