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Recent Examples of homophonic
How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
The letters used what’s known as a homophonic cipher, the researchers explain in a study published on Tuesday in the journal Cryptologia.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2023
The encryption turned out to be a homophonic cipher, in which each letter of the alphabet can be encoded in several different ways.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
So homophonic ciphers used multiple symbols interchangeably for high-frequency letters, Lasry says.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2023
Mary used what is called a homophonic cipher, where each letter is replaced with a certain symbol.
—Town & Country, 8 Feb. 2023
The ciphers were homophonic, meaning each letter of the alphabet could be encoded using several cipher symbols, according to the researchers.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
For example, The Knight Before Christmas is homophonic wordplay nodding at a classic holiday poem; A Castle for Christmas is an extremely literal plot summary.
—Vulture, 10 Nov. 2022
Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
The letters used what’s known as a homophonic cipher, the researchers explain in a study published on Tuesday in the journal Cryptologia.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2023
The encryption turned out to be a homophonic cipher, in which each letter of the alphabet can be encoded in several different ways.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
So homophonic ciphers used multiple symbols interchangeably for high-frequency letters, Lasry says.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2023
Mary used what is called a homophonic cipher, where each letter is replaced with a certain symbol.
—Town & Country, 8 Feb. 2023
The ciphers were homophonic, meaning each letter of the alphabet could be encoded using several cipher symbols, according to the researchers.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
For example, The Knight Before Christmas is homophonic wordplay nodding at a classic holiday poem; A Castle for Christmas is an extremely literal plot summary.
—Vulture, 10 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homophonic
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Byrd is the word: Revel in the polyphonic glories of William Byrd, perhaps the greatest and certainly most influential of all the English Renaissance composers, in a setting that surely would have felt home to him, as a composer of sacred songs.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
17 July 2025
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The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.—
Jordan Michelman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
4 July 2025
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Kepler’s harmonic law acts as a scale to weigh celestial bodies.—
Andrej Prša,
The Conversation,
23 July 2025
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As dark as the film can seem, it’s also filled with moments of harmonic bliss whenever the girls perform.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
7 July 2025
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The nickel-grey sunburst dial features a tonal version of Zenith’s tricolor El Primero subdials and polished details.—
Thor Svaboe,
Robb Report,
14 July 2025
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Speaking to Rolling Stone in a sprawling Q&A published today, the two-time Oscar nominee described the tonal difference between 2022’s Glass Onion and the forthcoming threequel, releasing Dec. 12.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
12 July 2025
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The rhythmic whooping grew louder in the air as search helicopters made their way for the missing.—
Sophia Leone,
FOXNews.com,
22 July 2025
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With a relationship dating to 1970, the tandem built a balanced, rhythmic symmetry that accommodated any type of flourish or alteration.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
20 July 2025
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This dynamic composition weaves together intense orchestral elements with modern beats, perfectly capturing the film’s blend of supernatural action and high energy music.—
Samantha Stutsman,
People.com,
14 July 2025
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Beloved is almost barren of the hip-hop flourishes that peppered his earlier work, and instead leans all the way into the orchestral R&B of another time, lush with searing strings and the crash of real hi-hats.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
11 July 2025
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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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Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.—
Giovanni Russonello,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
26 Aug. 2022
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Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
25 June 2022
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One More World is a sustained experiment in constructing a coherent personal register from grand forms – technical, sacrificial, mythological, memorial – and its accomplishment involves the translation of High Modernism into a lyric mode.—
Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Filled with fierce lyric tenderness and clear-eyed commitment to revolutionary aesthetic, Terror Counter devoted to the redemption of the self from a world ready to usurp this resistance.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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“Homophonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homophonic. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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