as in cadence
the recurrent pattern formed by a series of sounds having a regular rise and fall in intensity
the steady rhythm of the rain falling on the roof
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Recent Examples of rhythm
However, he later got caught in a quarterback carousel with Bailey Zappe and never fully found his rhythm, leading to his departure when he was traded to Jacksonville.
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Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
There aren’t many places to get out and dodge, and finding a rhythm is difficult.
—Shane Connuck
october 3, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025
My experience with the frequency music artist, Maejor, inspired me on how frequencies, rhythm and sound rituals help people reconnect with purpose and presence.
—Sonia Singh, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
Step-Ups Using a step or sturdy platform, step up and down at a steady rhythm.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 2 Oct. 2025
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Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
There aren’t many places to get out and dodge, and finding a rhythm is difficult.
—Shane Connuck
october 3, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025
My experience with the frequency music artist, Maejor, inspired me on how frequencies, rhythm and sound rituals help people reconnect with purpose and presence.
—Sonia Singh, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
Step-Ups Using a step or sturdy platform, step up and down at a steady rhythm.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 2 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for rhythm
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhythm
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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Although the full release will add even more content to indulge in (on top of a slow drip of seasonal updates to come), what’s been shown so far of Black Ops 7 indicates that fans are facing another down beat era for the franchise.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
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Rank, whose company recently remade Ingmar Bergsson classic film Faithless as a European TV series, praised Adolescence for matching up the genre beats of a crime story with the higher concepts around criminality, toxic masculinity and family, and the one-shot filming techniques.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The beat of the agent’s drum, the rhythm of the red-hot afternoon in rural Pennsylvania.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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The new species belongs to a group of fish known as Sciaenidae, commonly called drums or croakers.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Rhythm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhythm. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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