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or polyphonous
as in harmonic
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Recent Examples of polyphonic
The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.
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Jordan Michelman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 July 2025
The album is almost entirely instrumental, featuring a polyphonic blend of percussion, strings, keyboards, synths, and woodwinds, with André’s flute driving the downbeat.
—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
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Jordan Michelman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 July 2025
The album is almost entirely instrumental, featuring a polyphonic blend of percussion, strings, keyboards, synths, and woodwinds, with André’s flute driving the downbeat.
—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
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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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Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 Kennedy Center performance remains a blueprint, with Jeezy, Killer Mike, and Rick Ross all venturing into orchestral territory since.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Having opened in 1988, the Greenwood Village venue also specializes in presenting live orchestral movie scores, package tours and themed throwback nights.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Director Kate Rose Reynolds has magically infused the play with elements of dance, rhythmic drumming, highly creative use of props and movement designed by Taylor Jo Oxley.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Reparto builds on this intricacy by blending reggaeton beats with its signature clave rhythmic pattern.—
Ana González Vilá,
Rolling Stone,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Color was everywhere in Milan — from bold blocking to unexpected tonal mixes.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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These $40 G4Free pants already look more like trousers than track pants, thanks to their tonal color, raised front seams, and wide, flat waistband.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
29 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
Adjective
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Her nonfiction includes Pain Studies (Bellevue Literary Press/Dreamscape/Hanser), a book-length lyric essay on the intersection of pain, perception, and language; and Climate (Essay Press), an exchange of epistolary essays co-written with poet Julie Carr.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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Loose lyric sheets littered the floor.—
Jane Bua,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Polyphonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyphonic. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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