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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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Last year, New York looked completely disconnected.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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Without this, leadership turns reactive and governance becomes disconnected.—
Carlos Hoyos,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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Less an adaptation than a dissonant echo of Carrollian logic, Alice is a marvel of handmade horror that channels the darker currents of adolescent imagination and, not unlike Us, treats the inner life of a child not as an innocent refuge but as haunted terrain.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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Salome, in the grisly final scene, reasserts a degree of tonal stability, but dissonant uproar resumes when Herod commands her death.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
Adjective
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One strident answer is to lean into ambient intelligence.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Ken Cuccinelli was among the first and most strident.—
Molly Redden,
ProPublica,
23 May 2025
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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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