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
  • The other storylines were quite big and transgressive and Greek, and our storyline felt smaller and more disconnected.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Many couples believe that deep love means never feeling lonely or disconnected.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Some of those weird dissonant chords, there’s some of that in there for sure.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Jeff Zucker, the company’s chief executive during Mr. Trump’s first term, leaned hard into accountability coverage of the Trump administration and aired strident on-air criticism of the president during prime-time opinion shows.
    Benjamin Mullin, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • 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

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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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