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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for staccato
Adjective
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The other storylines were quite big and transgressive and Greek, and our storyline felt smaller and more disconnected.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2025
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Many couples believe that deep love means never feeling lonely or disconnected.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Some of those weird dissonant chords, there’s some of that in there for sure.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
21 Mar. 2025
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Some of those weird dissonant chords, there’s some of that in there for sure.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Leaders outside academia would be wise to consider Harvard's clear and strident response closely.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The Biden White House was strident in its condemnation of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and was the single-most important country for Kyiv's supply of military aid.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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