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Recent Examples of staccato
An aggressively staccato piece with an ever-present rumbling on the bass side on the keyboard turned into a Jelly Roll Morton-esque swing.
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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
Where Baraka often employs long, Whitmanesque lines, Harris’s are short and staccato.
—Adam Bradley Tajh Rust, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
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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
Where Baraka often employs long, Whitmanesque lines, Harris’s are short and staccato.
—Adam Bradley Tajh Rust, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for staccato
Adjective
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As a 16-year-old living in the South of France who’s frequently disconnected from his surroundings and loved ones, Pohu anchors the film’s emotional power even as some of the writing for his character and his family can verge on vexing vagueness rather than appealing ambiguity.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
14 May 2025
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The legislation proposes new regulations for annual reporting on disconnected youth and encourages early childhood education programs to use federal programs to provide more nutritious food to children.—
Jessika Harkay,
Hartford Courant,
14 May 2025
Adjective
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The creatively dissonant effort drove a nearly 10% month-over-month increase in store brand sales and a 12% increase across the category; expanded 7-Eleven’s in-house creative agency, producing campaigns faster and cheaper, all while also reducing plastic bag usage by 37%.—
Seth Matlins,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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The book cover, showing a happy couple on a beach accompanied by a dog with a stick in its mouth, seems cheerily dissonant.—
Julio Ojeda-Zapata,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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By agreeing that the reaction is a strident possibility, the next step of determining what to do about it is opened.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Lost on no one was the fact that Koch was in town—a rare visit, really—to accept the 2025 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, named in honor of the economist who was pretty strident in his opposition to tariffs.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
2 May 2025
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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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