staccato

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Recent Examples of staccato 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 Gordon’s prose is relatively staccato, with lots of sentence fragments and short paragraphs, and the action moves rapidly, covering the events of just a few days. Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023 See all Example Sentences for staccato 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staccato
Adjective
  • Filmed at the Lincoln Theater in Washington, D.C., this Hulu comedy special sees the entertainer tackling the ways modern society has grown increasingly disconnected despite living in an era of hyper-interdepence.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Therefore, the growth rate reported by the government seems a bit disconnected from other data points coming out of the country.
    JJ Kinahan, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • These songs all have a beautiful sadness to them and have a pop mentality, but there is always something dissonant or tense about them at times, musically.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Relationships between objects are often obscure, dissonant.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The next day, while the country was still overcome by grief and anger, a song appeared on Indian WhatsApp groups, sung by a strident female voice.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Through its strident positivity, PST ART glorifies speed and risk-taking (not to say recklessness) in the service of progress and discovery.
    Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025

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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.

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