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
  • At the same time, the industry remains highly fragmented, with siloed teams and disconnected systems hindering agility and efficiency across the value chain.
    SJ Studio, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
  • As our work with Girl Security shows, engaging young people reveals how disconnected most communities feel from it.
    Lauren Buitta, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • His new film, Highest 2 Lowest, which opened Friday, flips Akira Kurosawa’s mannered 1963 staple, High and Low, into a rowdy, topical, laugh-out-loud romp (starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and A$AP Rocky) that’s as beautifully jarring as a dissonant sax solo.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Still, the moody, dissonant synths were transfixing.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • Miran has previously voiced strident criticism of the Fed.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • That might have been an audacious move in a film less strident and more subtle.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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