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Recent Examples of tonal
Bring home a tonal Francophile fantasy with blue and white striped tea towels, bistro chairs, mosaic mugs, and classic dome or barn lights.
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Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
This tan suede Arizona pair with tonal hardware is one of the chicest takes on the classic style.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2025
The screen also gets up to 75% brighter than the old one to reveal the tonal depth and colors of your HDR pictures.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
Loser protagonists who discover some secret potential lurking within; elaborate, video-game-like systems of skills and abilities; ever-present high-school settings; passionate enemies who become staunch allies; and wild, rapid tonal shifts from violence to slapstick comedy are all Jump staples.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
This tan suede Arizona pair with tonal hardware is one of the chicest takes on the classic style.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2025
The screen also gets up to 75% brighter than the old one to reveal the tonal depth and colors of your HDR pictures.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
Loser protagonists who discover some secret potential lurking within; elaborate, video-game-like systems of skills and abilities; ever-present high-school settings; passionate enemies who become staunch allies; and wild, rapid tonal shifts from violence to slapstick comedy are all Jump staples.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonal
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The harmonic effort has earned the SNL alumna an Emmy nomination, alongside song co-writers Greenbaum and Sean Douglas.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
26 Aug. 2025
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His own timbre of a voice mixes well with his multiple harmonic partners and the various goofy turns he is tasked with implementing.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
8 Aug. 2025
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Bird will further celebrate the anniversary of Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs with a series of orchestral shows.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
9 Sep. 2025
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The piece is scored for two string groups, timpani, and piano—an instrument that often gives a metallic bite to Martinů’s orchestral textures.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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The rhythmic beat takes us on a love story full of sensuality, something that these Colombian and Colombian-Mexican groups handle perfectly.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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This rhythmic driving can create new forms of order that are impossible to achieve in equilibrium, revealing phenomena beyond the reach of conventional phases of matter.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
2 Mar. 2020
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Zivix reports that its algorithms can register complex playing techniques like polyphonic bends, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs, tapping and muting.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Aug. 2025
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Byrd is the word: Revel in the polyphonic glories of William Byrd, perhaps the greatest and certainly most influential of all the English Renaissance composers, in a setting that surely would have felt home to him, as a composer of sacred songs.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
17 July 2025
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
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Other stars who will be vying for a golden gramophone alongside Bad Bunny include Colombian pop star Karol G, Argentinian hip-hop duo CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso and Latin icons including Alejandro Sanz, Gloria Estefan and lyrical soprano, Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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Her diaries, two volumes of which have been published, reveal a wonderful writer, lyrical and self-lacerating.—
Anahid Nersessian,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Tonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonal. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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