metronomic

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Recent Examples of metronomic Schiff answered with metronomic precision, his delivery polished to a high gloss by years of addressing jurors and holding forth in Congress. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024 Other notable veterans such as Marcus Semien and Jacob deGrom got paid too, but Seager is the metronomic centerpiece still obsessing over his swing and still producing clutch hits. Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023 The thrill of seeing investment gains, with metronomic regularity, is gone. Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023 His production is metronomic at this point, steadily powering a Houston offense without its table setter for the season's first two months. Michael Shapiro, Chron, 13 Apr. 2023 See all Example Sentences for metronomic 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for metronomic
Adjective
  • And there was Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor getting cranky during oral arguments about the lack of uniform standards for ballots and how they are handled.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Modern observability solutions can help organizations break out of binary thinking by ingesting data from varied sources to surface uniform insights.
    Tom Wilkie, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Hanan Townshend’s score, with its heavy, rhythmic breathing and ethereal tones, cultivates a constant atmosphere of unease.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The six-stringed tandem of Murray, Gers and Smith sounded like an orchestra together as each guitarist delivered virtuosic lyrical solos — with Harris and McBrain providing muscular rhythmic support.
    David Chiu, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Billable hours are the metric law firms often use to measure the performance of their lawyers.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The stock market, a metric Trump returned to over and over during the relentless boasting of his presidency, has been reaching one after another.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Since it was usually written in the form of a memorable metrical couplet, the epigram became portable through time as well as space.
    A.E. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The show ended in the exact right place and, to me, at the exact right time, before these spineless creatures and their metrical reflections and rejoinders became more self-parodic than intended.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
Adjective
  • The company declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per share, paid on July 31, 2024.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Early Wednesday, investors were already betting that Trump’s win will also be a win for Musk’s major public holding, Tesla (TSLA), sending shares of his electric vehicle maker up an immediate 13% at the market open, and closing regular trading up nearly 15%.
    CNN.com, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024

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“Metronomic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metronomic. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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