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Recent Examples of staccato
She was still exhilarated; her voice was unusually staccato and intense.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for staccato
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In an industry with rising challenges like regulatory hurdles, climate change, labor shortages, and fluctuating market demands, farmers were left to juggle too many disconnected tools that didn’t speak the same language.Forbes, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Bonding is the story of three disconnected siblings who must confront their personal differences to cover up the murder of a tech millionaire at his remote Colorado ranch.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
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The dissonant hoover synths seethe like Bernard Herrmann strings — echoing the lyrics’ references to Hitchcock’s Psycho, Vertigo, and Rear Window.Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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It was improvised and dissonant and the type of weird that gave everyone goosebumps.Angelique Jackson, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
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For years, politicians have made increasingly strident promises to curb migration to the UK; for the most part, those promises have fallen short.Christian Edwards, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024
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However, Harris' strident support for Volodymyr Zelensky and his country's battle against Vladimir's Putin's invasion won recognition from security experts.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Staccato.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staccato. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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