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Recent Examples of staccato
An aggressively staccato piece with an ever-present rumbling on the bass side on the keyboard turned into a Jelly Roll Morton-esque swing.
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Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 2 Aug. 2024
She was still exhilarated; her voice was unusually staccato and intense.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
Part of the holdup (beyond Snapdragon laptop chips' lackluster performance) has been the staccato introduction of important native-running applications for Windows on Arm, leaving some key ones reliant on emulation to work on the platform.
—John Burek, PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
Where Baraka often employs long, Whitmanesque lines, Harris’s are short and staccato.
—Adam Bradley Tajh Rust, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
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Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 2 Aug. 2024
She was still exhilarated; her voice was unusually staccato and intense.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
Part of the holdup (beyond Snapdragon laptop chips' lackluster performance) has been the staccato introduction of important native-running applications for Windows on Arm, leaving some key ones reliant on emulation to work on the platform.
—John Burek, PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
Where Baraka often employs long, Whitmanesque lines, Harris’s are short and staccato.
—Adam Bradley Tajh Rust, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for staccato
Adjective
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Here's what happens when communications operates separately from customer success: Your customers receive polished marketing messages that feel disconnected from their actual product experience.—
Sal Viveros,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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But regions of spacetime can also become disconnected, or decoupled, in the presence of strong gravitational fields, such as those found in and around a black hole.—
Lyndie Chiou,
Wired News,
20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The major-sevenths, by stuffing four notes into the chords, offered greater harmonic options, and Sikes was determined to take advantage of them, encouraging Wayne to incorporate the dissonant notes into her high harmonies.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
22 Apr. 2025
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And there’s a blunt, pulp poetry to Manny’s conclusion (if not a particularly sensitive one), driven to despair by an inability to live in the dissonant but very real space between one’s religious moral compass and the realities of one’s life.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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That strategy drew a furious response from some of the city’s employee unions, who distributed posters comparing Villaraigosa to Wisconsin’s then-Gov. Scott Walker, viewed at that time as a strident foe of organized labor.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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Whatever his political intent, Lai has become more strident on cross-Taiwan Strait questions in recent weeks.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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