How to Use key signature in a Sentence
key signature
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In musical terms, values are the key signature.
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Thomas Lim,
Forbes.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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And then there’s his fascinating key signatures, and chord changes, and the influence of Brazilian bossa nova.
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Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
8 Jan. 2026
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The experiment produced nanophase iron, tiny metallic particles that are widely observed in lunar soil and are considered a key signature of space weathering.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
10 June 2026
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There was this notion that maybe humans are just really good at representing and extracting hierarchical structures, which of course are a key signature of language, but are also present in other domains like math and music and aspects of social cognition.
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Quanta Magazine,
5 Dec. 2025
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In addition, four type III bursts in the dataset display several of the key signatures predicted by the simulations, reinforcing the link between these structures and the measured drift behavior.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
3 May 2026
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