as in barrage
a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once
a dizzying drumbeat of interviews in the hours following her winning of the Academy Award
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Recent Examples of drumbeat
Finding space for other worlds within the relentless drumbeat for Mars, a planet right next door, had proven challenging.
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Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
But that hopeful news—and the constant drumbeat of election developments—seems to have drowned out another important, yet more sobering, trend: Consumers as a group are worn out by inflation and all the other financial disruptions triggered by the COVID pandemic.
—Greg Petro, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
The drumbeat of departures from Paramount Global is continuing, with high-level streaming exec Jeff Shultz heading for the exits.
Shultz, whose most recent title was Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Business Development Officer, Streaming, was one of the initial architects of Pluto TV‘s success.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
The repetitive drumbeat of failure, occasionally punctuated by success or disaster or revelation, batters you into a kind of gleeful serenity.
—Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
But that hopeful news—and the constant drumbeat of election developments—seems to have drowned out another important, yet more sobering, trend: Consumers as a group are worn out by inflation and all the other financial disruptions triggered by the COVID pandemic.
—Greg Petro, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
The drumbeat of departures from Paramount Global is continuing, with high-level streaming exec Jeff Shultz heading for the exits.
Shultz, whose most recent title was Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Business Development Officer, Streaming, was one of the initial architects of Pluto TV‘s success.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
The repetitive drumbeat of failure, occasionally punctuated by success or disaster or revelation, batters you into a kind of gleeful serenity.
—Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Drumbeat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drumbeat. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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