staccato

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Recent Examples of staccato The writing is assured, propulsive, staccato, and witty. Lily Ruth Hardman, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024 An aggressively staccato piece with an ever-present rumbling on the bass side on the keyboard turned into a Jelly Roll Morton-esque swing. Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 2 Aug. 2024 She was still exhilarated; her voice was unusually staccato and intense. Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024 Part of the holdup (beyond Snapdragon laptop chips' lackluster performance) has been the staccato introduction of important native-running applications for Windows on Arm, leaving some key ones reliant on emulation to work on the platform. John Burek, PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for staccato
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staccato
Adjective
  • The ridge has a width of 20 kilometers and rises to a height of 13 kilometers, following the equator almost perfectly, yet with multiple disconnected segments and isolated peaks.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Even when Kevin is away, Danielle never feels disconnected from him.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But Roofman, which Cianfrance also co-wrote, was clearly intended to be lighter fare and instead ends up in this dissonant in-between space tonally.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Jonny Greenwood’s score moves between soaring strings and dissonant piano keys, alternately soothing and anxious; a few pieces composed by Jon Brion add an ambient layer of wistfulness.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Carney won an election in April with a strident message for Canadians, warning that theirrelationship with America would change dramatically in the coming years.
    Paula Newton, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • For days, the National Weather Service had been issuing increasingly strident warnings.
    Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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