staccato

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Recent Examples of staccato 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 Gordon’s prose is relatively staccato, with lots of sentence fragments and short paragraphs, and the action moves rapidly, covering the events of just a few days. Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for staccato
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staccato
Adjective
  • Without addressing these challenges, partners may feel disconnected and unfulfilled in the relationship, which can lead to them growing apart emotionally and physically.
    Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Between 2022 and 2024, Holt lost roughly $110,000 — a loss that left him completely disconnected from his life.
    Windsor Johnston, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • These dissonant elements have been in the DNA of Short n’ Sweet from the start.
    Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The growling in the intro, the very advanced, dissonant piano parts and the crazy vocal performance ended me.
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The giveaway begins with conservative Cardinal Tedesco (Sergio Castellitto, so great in Marco Bellocchio’s My Mother’s Smile but strident here, away from Bellocchio’s complex virtuoso ambivalence).
    Armond White, National Review, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Fundamentalist Protestantism has emerged as a strident, controversial voice in South Korean conservative politics.
    ROBERT E. KELLY, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2025

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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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