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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
The data set for evaluating the model consisted of homophonic puns, normal sentences, and ambiguous nonsense sentences.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2014
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
The data set for evaluating the model consisted of homophonic puns, normal sentences, and ambiguous nonsense sentences.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2014
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homophonic
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At its heart is the creation of new vocal datasets, polyphonic AI models capable of blending human and machine voices, pulling audiences into an immersive, participatory experience.Nargess Banks, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Everything [in Georgia] symbolizes wine—like the architecture of the medieval century, like churches, even Georgian polyphonic singing, which reminds me of the curly vines.Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2024
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The harmonic convergence reached its height in the spring of 1981.Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2024
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There is, however, a harmonic tension at the heart of the conception, as semitone dissonances pierce the texture in almost every bar—F against E, D-sharp against E, C against B. As one of these twinges is resolved, another intrudes.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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In the campaign, Long models pieces from the Skims Body, Seamless Sculpt and Hosiery collections, putting the brand’s diverse range of tonal pieces front and center.Julia Teti, WWD, 19 Dec. 2024
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What feels like a tonal treadmill is mostly differentiated by environments that will no doubt be wildly confusing to many elementary schoolers’ understanding of African geography, and may even lead adults to mix up the characters.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2024
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The Amazon guy delivering boxes of tissues and serving as her only sympathetic ear adds a straight man to the scene at exactly the correct rhythmic intervals.Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
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All the while, temple bells ring in the background, weaving together even the most disparate-seeming images into something rhythmic.Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 25 Dec. 2024
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Plans major in music performance with the eventual goal to earn a full-time position as an orchestral trombone player.Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
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Once More continues in the tradition of that record, compiling the duo’s finest Yuletide songs—Christmas Portrait is well represented—interwoven with sparkling orchestral arrangements and always centering Karen Carpenter’s hearth-warm voice.Darryn King, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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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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Maybe that explains why their playing in the Eighth Symphony sang out with such fullness and breadth, and why chordal passages had such strong hints of a church choir.New York Times, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
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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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As early as 1992, MacColl was performing the song with the same lyric change.Pat Saperstein, Variety, 22 Dec. 2024
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The lyric reworks are basically telling people how to use the Cologuard test, then it gets screened.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Homophonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homophonic. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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