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as in undertone
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Recent Examples of overtone
This deciduous, semi-dwarf tree features forest green leaves that turn yellow in the fall, producing showy clusters of white flowers with a pink overtone in the spring.
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Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 Mar. 2026
The body mist has a very green overtone that cuts through daily doldrums with a crispness others notice, becoming impressive, not overbearing.
—Irene Richardson, InStyle, 22 Feb. 2026
That psychedelic wash of overtone-rich sound that ripples through the chorus of Donovan’s 1968 hit?
—Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 30 Jan. 2026
There is no religious overtone.
—John Wisely, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 Mar. 2026
The body mist has a very green overtone that cuts through daily doldrums with a crispness others notice, becoming impressive, not overbearing.
—Irene Richardson, InStyle, 22 Feb. 2026
That psychedelic wash of overtone-rich sound that ripples through the chorus of Donovan’s 1968 hit?
—Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 30 Jan. 2026
There is no religious overtone.
—John Wisely, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overtone
Noun
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And then this undertone track comes in.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
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But the media dug the myth a little too much; their consuming embrace of it carried a racist undertone, as if Basquiat could only be understood as a derelict version of virtuosity.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
9 June 2026
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The contributions to Becerra and Bonta are one signal that AI giants and their employees have taken notice, investing in state elections in addition to congressional races.—
Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
17 June 2026
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By examining how the atmospheric signal changed over time, Gapp and his team found that the evening side absorbed slightly more starlight than the morning side, the study reports.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
16 June 2026
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There’s more than a tinge of folk horror to this lingering mystery, which brings to mind the 1973 genre landmark The Wicker Man, in which a puritanical police officer travels to a remote island community that’s reverted to old pagan ways.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
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The tinges of regret over What Might Have Been for him tremble just beneath his and the movie’s surface.—
Adam Graham,
Boston Herald,
4 June 2026
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Vehicles not meeting passenger vehicle characteristics including, but not limited to, tractor-trailers, buses, motor homes and step or cube vans, the Authority said.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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Scientists have found a skull with Neandertal characteristics farther south in England, but the inhabitants of the Barnham site may have instead been Homo heidelbergensis, a second early hominin species.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
10 Dec. 2025
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The space and a la carte menu will offer a major tone shift from Charmers, which Schoen describes as something between a cocktail bar and a dive bar.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
Nashville Tennessean,
9 Dec. 2025
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Dusty blues, in particular, seem to be everywhere, often paired with richer, earthier tones.—
Hannah Coates,
Vogue,
9 Dec. 2025
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After gathering digital evidence, conducting witness interviews and executing search warrants, investigators obtained and served an arrest warrant Tuesday for the Yuba City man, according to a department statement.—
Reeti Malhotra,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2026
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Early evidence of a Jevons paradox for AI is everywhere.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026
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By wearing the dark hue, the director makes the choice to break one of summer dressing’s most enduring rules.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
16 June 2026
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Sage green was the only hue to rank in the top tier of every room featured in the report.—
Abby Monteil,
The Spruce,
16 June 2026
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This approach to text generation shifts the bottleneck from memory bandwidth to compute, generating up to 256 tokens in parallel.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
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Tickets include seating, food and drink tokens and access to F1 race simulators.—
Alexandra Simon,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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“Overtone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overtone. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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