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as in harmonic
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Recent Examples of polyphonic
The album is almost entirely instrumental, featuring a polyphonic blend of percussion, strings, keyboards, synths, and woodwinds, with André’s flute driving the downbeat.
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Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
In turn, her fiction felt lively and polyphonic.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
At its heart is the creation of new vocal datasets, polyphonic AI models capable of blending human and machine voices, pulling audiences into an immersive, participatory experience.
—Nargess Banks, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
In turn, her fiction felt lively and polyphonic.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
At its heart is the creation of new vocal datasets, polyphonic AI models capable of blending human and machine voices, pulling audiences into an immersive, participatory experience.
—Nargess Banks, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyphonic
Adjective
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The harmonic effort has earned the SNL alumna an Emmy nomination, alongside song co-writers Greenbaum and Sean Douglas.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
26 Aug. 2025
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His own timbre of a voice mixes well with his multiple harmonic partners and the various goofy turns he is tasked with implementing.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Bird will further celebrate the anniversary of Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs with a series of orchestral shows.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
9 Sep. 2025
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The piece is scored for two string groups, timpani, and piano—an instrument that often gives a metallic bite to Martinů’s orchestral textures.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The rhythmic beat takes us on a love story full of sensuality, something that these Colombian and Colombian-Mexican groups handle perfectly.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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This rhythmic driving can create new forms of order that are impossible to achieve in equilibrium, revealing phenomena beyond the reach of conventional phases of matter.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Lisa continued the tonal theme with matching lipstick and plenty of pink sapphires.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
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Founded in 1991 by Christophe Lemaire, the label has become known for its oversized proportions, tonal palettes and uncompromising materials.—
Brett F. Braley-Palko,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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Bach was lively, supple, and, especially in the Larghetto, generous in its songful musicality.—
Jeremy Eichler,
BostonGlobe.com,
23 Sep. 2022
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In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
26 Aug. 2022
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The lyric change brought immediate screams inside Estadio River Plate and across the Swift world.—
Doha Madani,
NBC news,
26 Aug. 2025
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This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Polyphonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyphonic. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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