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Recent Examples of tonal
The actress wore a yellow satin gown with a wide train in pleated soleil tulle, embellished with tonal crystals and white dégradé pearls.
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Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026
Stars Tease a Darker Tone One of the most significant details about Season 3 involves a tonal shift manga readers will recognize immediately.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
To recreate the look, swap your standard black suit for a chocolate or espresso tone and pair it with a crisp shirt or tonal layers.
—Casey Delbasso, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
From uploaded photos, Billy reads contrasts, shadows, textures and subtle tonal variations that indicate natural wear patterns such as whiskers, fades and abrasion areas.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 Mar. 2026
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Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026
Stars Tease a Darker Tone One of the most significant details about Season 3 involves a tonal shift manga readers will recognize immediately.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
To recreate the look, swap your standard black suit for a chocolate or espresso tone and pair it with a crisp shirt or tonal layers.
—Casey Delbasso, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
From uploaded photos, Billy reads contrasts, shadows, textures and subtle tonal variations that indicate natural wear patterns such as whiskers, fades and abrasion areas.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonal
Adjective
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The first AirPods Max was lauded for its great sound with the company's in-house 40-mm driver designed for exceptionally low harmonic distortion.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Mar. 2026
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These modes are referred to as a damped harmonic oscillator.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The orchestral instruments contain several choir samples, a harp, a pipe organ, and the usual brass, percussion, strings, and woodwinds.—
Jamie Lendino,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2026
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Born in Venezuela, Dudamel was trained through El Sistema, a national music education program focused on youth development through orchestral instruction.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Her grinding against the moss is as rhythmic as the beat of a metronome.—
Agnieszka Szpila,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Each rhythmic stop-and-start, each peel of feedback is imbued with the sense that the band might fully crumble into noise and dissonance.—
Colin Joyce,
Pitchfork,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
2 Mar. 2020
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The choral elements on the record shine most vividly on the title track, which features polyphonic swells of voices humming melodies, overtaking the piano, dropping and then rising again.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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Women who worked in shops sang together in bellowing, polyphonic unison.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
21 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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My introduction to homophonic translation came from my former teacher, Mónica de la Torre.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Jan. 2026
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Written by Italian playwright Stefano Massini as an epic poem and adapted for the stage by Ben Power, the play’s language is lyrical and gorgeously descriptive.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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David George Haskell is a biologist acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Tonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonal. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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