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Recent Examples of tonal
This heel features a breathable mesh upper, a pointed-toe silhouette and a tonal suede stiletto heel measuring nearly four inches.
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Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
In January this year, Stewart got back on the bleach, adding a citrus tonal twist to her ends.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Monroe has to slowly tilt from being beguiled and intrigued by Stevens to totally terrified by him, and her ability to pull it off while explosions and gun battles are going on around her sells the film’s tonal shifts perfectly.
—Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
Scavuzzo said these fabrics give brands creative freedom to explore a range from soft, tonal washes to vibrant, seasonal color.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 Oct. 2025
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Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
In January this year, Stewart got back on the bleach, adding a citrus tonal twist to her ends.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Monroe has to slowly tilt from being beguiled and intrigued by Stevens to totally terrified by him, and her ability to pull it off while explosions and gun battles are going on around her sells the film’s tonal shifts perfectly.
—Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
Scavuzzo said these fabrics give brands creative freedom to explore a range from soft, tonal washes to vibrant, seasonal color.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonal
Adjective
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Using this approach, the team demonstrated arbitrary pulse shaping, tunable second-harmonic generation, holographic generation of spatio-spectrally structured light, and real-time inverse design of nonlinear-optical functions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Proudfoot and his team, including Kris Bowers, pull all the right (if predictable) emotional strings, underscoring Hesse’s memories with majestic orchestral music fit for an Old Hollywood epic.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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Both Varèse and Ives create simulacra of modern disorder, setting orchestral groups against one another until pitch disappears into noise.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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On April 12, 1962, Black men, women, and children packed into Philadelphia’s Times Auditorium and milled about to the low, rhythmic beating of African drums until the lights dimmed and Moore took the stage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Communication, at its best, has always been aural, emotional, rhythmic and alive, not just letters on a screen.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
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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Similarly, the dozens of people whom Greaves interviews in the film aren’t delivering a single and univocal history of the Harlem Renaissance but a polyphonic transmission of it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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Angela Flournoy follows her highly honored first novel, The Turner House (2016), with an illuminating polyphonic exploration of the glorious heights and darkest lows of friendships among four women.—
Jane Ciabattari
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Music, instrumental or lyrical, should hover just around normal conversational levels (around 60 to 70 decibels, according to the Hearing Health Foundation).—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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The result is short, lyrical narratives that aim to be enjoyable, uplifting, and emotionally instructive.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Tonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonal. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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