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Recent Examples of homophonic
How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
The encryption turned out to be a homophonic cipher, in which each letter of the alphabet can be encoded in several different ways.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
So homophonic ciphers used multiple symbols interchangeably for high-frequency letters, Lasry says.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2023
Mary used what is called a homophonic cipher, where each letter is replaced with a certain symbol.
—Town & Country, 8 Feb. 2023
The ciphers were homophonic, meaning each letter of the alphabet could be encoded using several cipher symbols, according to the researchers.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
For example, The Knight Before Christmas is homophonic wordplay nodding at a classic holiday poem; A Castle for Christmas is an extremely literal plot summary.
—Vulture, 10 Nov. 2022
Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
The encryption turned out to be a homophonic cipher, in which each letter of the alphabet can be encoded in several different ways.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
So homophonic ciphers used multiple symbols interchangeably for high-frequency letters, Lasry says.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2023
Mary used what is called a homophonic cipher, where each letter is replaced with a certain symbol.
—Town & Country, 8 Feb. 2023
The ciphers were homophonic, meaning each letter of the alphabet could be encoded using several cipher symbols, according to the researchers.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
For example, The Knight Before Christmas is homophonic wordplay nodding at a classic holiday poem; A Castle for Christmas is an extremely literal plot summary.
—Vulture, 10 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homophonic
Adjective
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Similarly, the dozens of people whom Greaves interviews in the film aren’t delivering a single and univocal history of the Harlem Renaissance but a polyphonic transmission of it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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Angela Flournoy follows her highly honored first novel, The Turner House (2016), with an illuminating polyphonic exploration of the glorious heights and darkest lows of friendships among four women.—
Jane Ciabattari
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Using this approach, the team demonstrated arbitrary pulse shaping, tunable second-harmonic generation, holographic generation of spatio-spectrally structured light, and real-time inverse design of nonlinear-optical functions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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The bags—each featuring tonal shades of brown and beige and a bold Coach logo—retail for $350-$395.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Nov. 2025
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The near-tonal looks have been a successful recipe for the 204L thus far, although this particular pair switches things up slightly with its two-tone pink look.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
31 Oct. 2025
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The festival kicks off Thursday night with a Grand Tasting featuring small bites from local chefs, wine poured by the winemakers themselves, and a rhythmic night of music from The Psycodelics to round it out.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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The crowd nodded in rhythmic agreement.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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To close out the festivities, with Orchestra Miami serving as the orchestral partner, a special event is planned for year’s end at the renowned Venetian Pool, a historic pool listed in the National Register of Historic Places.—
Dontaira Terrell,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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Proudfoot and his team, including Kris Bowers, pull all the right (if predictable) emotional strings, underscoring Hesse’s memories with majestic orchestral music fit for an Old Hollywood epic.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
2 Mar. 2020
Adjective
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Yet amidst this external focus on varied lyric forms, the drive in this collection feels narrative, the stories history doubling and echoing myth and history.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Keith Urban is setting the record straight after fans analyzed his lyric swaps post-Nicole Kidman split.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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In recent years, Bleed had continued recording and performing, maintaining a loyal fan base drawn to his signature mix of southern wisdom and lyrical realism.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Laden with symbolism both in its lyrics and accompanying video, the piece — structured in operatic movements —surprises with Rosalía’s lyrical performance, gliding seamlessly between English, German, and her native Spanish.—
Luisa Calle,
Billboard,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Homophonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homophonic. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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