as in rhythm
the recurrent pattern formed by a series of sounds having a regular rise and fall in intensity
the soothing cadence of the lecturer's voice nearly put me to sleep
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The lesson for you is to learn to control your cadence, and the way to do that is to concentrate on your pauses rather than your words or phrases.
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Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Though the Adams administration has won hundreds of millions of federal infrastructure dollars, being able to plan to a regular cadence — rather than waiting for post-disaster FEMA funds or the right political winds to blow — would help the pace of our work exponentially.
—Meera Joshi, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
Unlike so much contemporary poetry, his poems would seem to welcome you in, with an easy cadence and familiar references that seem to amuse.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
That, in itself, is a testament to the ubiquity of spaceflight today, and the leaps the industry has taken for such a cadence to become possible.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2025
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Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Though the Adams administration has won hundreds of millions of federal infrastructure dollars, being able to plan to a regular cadence — rather than waiting for post-disaster FEMA funds or the right political winds to blow — would help the pace of our work exponentially.
—Meera Joshi, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
Unlike so much contemporary poetry, his poems would seem to welcome you in, with an easy cadence and familiar references that seem to amuse.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
That, in itself, is a testament to the ubiquity of spaceflight today, and the leaps the industry has taken for such a cadence to become possible.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cadence
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“Cadence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadence. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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