staccato

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for staccato
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staccato
Adjective
  • At many organizations, whether small or large, the situation has created a confounding mess of disconnected systems, siloed data and ultimately a poor customer experience — all of which negatively impact a company’s revenue.
    Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Somehow, amid all these disconnected threads, Sheridan can have a moment in his narrative that purely breathes, where nothing much happens except that most important of things: an exchange of ideas.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s no denying the fact that Severance (nearing the end of its sophomore season on Apple TV+) has refined priceless television gold from dissonant contradiction.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Thus, the best skinny jeans will boast a lower front rise and a slightly higher back rise to accommodate the dissonant sitting and standing coverage requirements.
    BestReviews, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Winfrey and Goldberg had become intra-racial foes — no longer likable examples of black American excellence but strident political operatives who exuded exceptional dishonesty: That Quincy intro lacked sisterhood.
    Armond White, National Review, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Proposals for new shelter often receive pushback, yet the opposition to the cabins appears particularly strident.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025

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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.

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