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Recent Examples of tempo
And everyone else has to share the air that’s created by the rest of La Brea and the rest of Sunset, but there’s this one block that still can create its own tempo without having to drive out an hour and a half or an hour in traffic to touch that kind of air.
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Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2026
Going up against a team many expected to repeat and a defense that ranked first nationally in the major categories, the Hurricanes dictated the tempo and the tone by dominating the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball.
—Paul Myerberg, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
His speed in the open floor, his willingness to push tempo and his ability to organize an offense when things get chaotic.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
In keeping with Marty Supreme’s tachycardiac tempo and its titular character’s maniacal hustle, Chalamet was adamant that the execution not feel too polished.
—Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2025
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Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2026
Going up against a team many expected to repeat and a defense that ranked first nationally in the major categories, the Hurricanes dictated the tempo and the tone by dominating the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball.
—Paul Myerberg, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
His speed in the open floor, his willingness to push tempo and his ability to organize an offense when things get chaotic.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
In keeping with Marty Supreme’s tachycardiac tempo and its titular character’s maniacal hustle, Chalamet was adamant that the execution not feel too polished.
—Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tempo
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From the French-German border to the Mediterranean coast to the mountainous intersection of France, Italy, and Switzerland, these small towns and villages (all home to less than 15,000 people) offer a slower pace and warm French hospitality.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Jan. 2026
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Sessions are guided by attentive listening, gentle techniques, and respect for each individual’s pace and choices.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
8 Jan. 2026
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To receive the senior rate, a person must apply to the Rogers Water Utilities and present satisfactory proof of age, such as a government issued identification card, driver's license, passport or birth certificate.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Nov. 2025
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Interest rates go up on longer-term loans Yes, extending the term of a mortgage from 30 to 50 years could drop the monthly payment, wrote Richard Green, a professor at the University of Southern California, on LinkedIn.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
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His velocity was up a bit in the second half, and his strikeout rate also jumped from 31% to 39%, so there's a case to be made that bad luck amplifies a slight regression from arguably the best reliever in the game to merely one of the best 10 to 15 in the league.—
Aaliyan Mohammed,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
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In the modern landscape of personalized diagnostics, drug research, development, and manufacturing, data integrity and velocity of the product-to-market are everything.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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In a field experiment with hundreds of consultants, GPT-4 improved speed and quality on some knowledge tasks while performance dropped on other, seemingly similar tasks just outside its strengths.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Jan. 2026
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Tapascott said speed alone no longer excites drivers.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Jan. 2026
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The walking observation Pay attention to your gait.—
Dana Santas,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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The brace successfully monitored joint bending while the subject walked, ran, squatted, and jumped, even reconstructing the person’s running gait with precision.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Tempo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tempo. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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