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Recent Examples of staccato
Majok sculpts the play’s first half for the director and actors to exist in a start/stop/repeat staccato rhythm of conversational interchanges.
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Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
13 May 2026
At the same time, the audio trace fills with a rapid series of ultrasonic echolocation calls, the staccato sound of a hunter steering through darkness.
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Leonie Baier,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2026
Just as young people want the information now, not in ancient and flat form, but in something that's much harder and more creative with a staccato, machine-gun style of delivery.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
23 Nov. 2025
However, some things are easier said than done, which is why policy shifts and responses have been staccato and unpredictable at times.
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Jason Schenker,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for staccato
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
13 May 2026
At the same time, the audio trace fills with a rapid series of ultrasonic echolocation calls, the staccato sound of a hunter steering through darkness.
—
Leonie Baier,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2026
Just as young people want the information now, not in ancient and flat form, but in something that's much harder and more creative with a staccato, machine-gun style of delivery.
—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
23 Nov. 2025
However, some things are easier said than done, which is why policy shifts and responses have been staccato and unpredictable at times.
—
Jason Schenker,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for staccato
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staccato
Adjective
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What should scare them more is ending up with hundreds of AI projects, dozens of disconnected workflows and no idea how any of it fits together.
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Structured blazers and heavy layering feel increasingly disconnected from today’s climate and lifestyle.
Adjective
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At the track’s apex Korten explodes in and out of dissonant broken chords against Mark Shim’s angular saxophone lines, an unexpected development that sneaks up on you thanks to Sorey’s sticky, slowly evolving drumming.
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This is reminding me of watching Slint play a reunion show in 2014 under the I-65 highway at a festival in Louisville, and how simultaneously awesome and cognitively dissonant that experience was.
Adjective
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Football coverage can also often be dominated by ex-players, bluntly exchanging unnecessarily strident views.
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In a strident, aggressive veto message by Andrew Johnson.
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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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