as in rhythms
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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Recent Examples of cadences
If the first Five Nights at Freddy’s played like a clunky attempt to introduce youngish kids to the cadences of horror, then its sequel plays like a clunky attempt to introduce now slightly olderish kids to the clichés of horror.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2025
On social media meme pages, where political affiliations are typically not printed in bold type but in cadences of online speech or meme dogwhistles, lines can sometimes get blurred.
—Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025
Roberts likens miners’ struggles to biblical stories, references the power of God and the teachings of Jesus, and speaks in the dynamic cadences found in an Appalachian church.
—The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
Companies such as OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Hume AI, for example, are building text-to-voice models that can whisper, laugh, and affect a broad range of emotional cadences.
—Webb Wright, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
Bonitto said he’s made a habit of dissecting the cadences of opposing quarterbacks on film and studying them throughout the week.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
With lilting cadences, the king shares the origin myth of his Nkangala people, that a small elephant shed its skin while bathing in the river and a woman emerged, who married and procreated with his ancestors.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Quarterbacks, especially, have to add layers of unique details to their notes, such as tags for different types of motion, cadences and more.
—Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Traditional marketing mix modeling has typically been slow to field and refresh—often taking weeks to months to build and then updating on quarterly or biannual cadences, which means insights can arrive long after campaigns have ended.
—Kiri Masters, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadences
rhythms
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This image moved quickly across global media and was shared, commented on, memed, and folded into the familiar rhythms of contemporary visual culture.—
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The participants also showed a shift in their circadian rhythms (sleep/wake cycles) when they were placed on the time-restricted eating schedules, but the associated health impacts are not known.—
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“Cadences.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadences. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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