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
  • This seemed entirely sensible at this strange, disconnected time.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • However, too much isolation can leave retirees feeling disconnected from friends, family and community.
    Kiplinger Consumer News Service, Boston Herald, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Possessed by the spirit of dance, an equally urgent soundtrack surrounds her: dissonant hoover synths, gospel-house pianos, Siouxsie and the Banshees’ guitars.
    Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Kennedy, a strident anti-vaccine activist, also appeared to be on a surprisingly smooth path after the Senate voted 53-47 to move forward with his confirmation.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Trump has tapped Kash Patel, a strident supporter and former federal prosecutor, to take over as the next director of the FBI.
    Jim Mustian, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025

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

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