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Recent Examples of tonal
Meghan has a knack for tonal outfits, including this brown look worn while visiting Canada House in London in 2020.
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Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 3 Apr. 2026
Instead of relying on a tired dobby border to maintain the towels’ shape, Frette instead opted for a tonal band of piping that goes all the way around the rounded bath staples.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026
OpenAI is not the only lab where the tonal shift can be felt.
—Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 31 Mar. 2026
The tonal depth in his prints is rich, dense, and moody—not a void but a presence.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
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Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 3 Apr. 2026
Instead of relying on a tired dobby border to maintain the towels’ shape, Frette instead opted for a tonal band of piping that goes all the way around the rounded bath staples.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026
OpenAI is not the only lab where the tonal shift can be felt.
—Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 31 Mar. 2026
The tonal depth in his prints is rich, dense, and moody—not a void but a presence.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonal
Adjective
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This vast bundle of life and existence whirrs continually, creating the comforting harmonic tone that defines this place.—
Stephen Trimble,
Denver Post,
8 Apr. 2026
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At the heart of the mystery lies a surprising phenomenon—high-order harmonic generation (HHG).—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The album features both grand orchestral arrangements and electro-pop, all sung in 13 different languages, with each song inspired by a different Catholic saint or female religious figure.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
31 Mar. 2026
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The orchestral instruments contain several choir samples, a harp, a pipe organ, and the usual brass, percussion, strings, and woodwinds.—
Jamie Lendino,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Experts refer that moment to conveying a picture, a moment often accentuated by the rhythmical clatter of two pieces of wood, which are like claves.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The rhythmic music is intended to accompany the departed on their journey to the world of the ancestors.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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We are left just with voices, and those voices, in the novel’s subtle and canny repetitions, begin to merge with one another, becoming polyphonic.—
Nicholas Dames,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2026
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The choral elements on the record shine most vividly on the title track, which features polyphonic swells of voices humming melodies, overtaking the piano, dropping and then rising again.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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My introduction to homophonic translation came from my former teacher, Mónica de la Torre.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Jan. 2026
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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
Adjective
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As voices arrive—some direct, some sampled—the track is subsumed by texture, demanding little in the way of lyrical comprehension.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
13 Apr. 2026
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The insects’ signature chirps, conducted using their legs like guitar strings, are loud and lyrical, and one species is even named after a fellow Lone Star State icon, Willie Nelson.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Tonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonal. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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