Thesaurus results for RHYTHMS

rhythms

noun

plural of rhythm

as in cadences

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 rhythms But for those of us who love love — who can clock not just the subtle rhythms of the genre but also the personal rhythms of a couple sharing an honest, congruent, life-altering experience — the details matter. —

Hugh Hart, IndieWire, 23 May 2026 The achievement allowed researchers to recreate how the nervous system communicates with the heart, opening potential new paths for studying irregular heart rhythms and developing future treatments that could reduce reliance on electronic pacemakers. —

Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 23 May 2026 In life, however, poets and artists and even gamers see the leaves are always turning, forever dancing along with nature’s curious rhythms. —

Alex James Kane, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 Its war-like rhythms and relentless pulse give the work a vigorous sense of liberation. —

Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 22 May 2026 Researchers have also warned that excessive nighttime lighting can affect human circadian rhythms and obscure views of the night sky for much of the global population. —

Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 20 May 2026 The orderliness of their rhythms disappears. —

Emily Feng, NPR, 20 May 2026 Decades of meticulous research, the most prominent by the Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson in Chicago, shows how the rhythms of city life and a web of loose connections—a familiar face on the bus, a neighbor at the laundromat—can spur a sense of mutual obligation and enforce social constraint. —

Elizabeth Glazer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026 More than a decade later, hantavirus cruise passengers are experiencing some of the same rhythms of confinement Brantly remembers from his time inside Emory’s isolation unit. —

Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 17 May 2026

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Other than that, the differences in the format were small, distracting only because of how ingrained the cadences of the original are.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Mar. 2026
One Battle After Another’s Kubrickian overtones are largely confined to Lockjaw’s story line — quite appropriate, as Kubrick was fascinated by how attempts to preserve power structures allowed murder to creep into the seemingly benign cadences of ordinary life.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026