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Recent Examples of polyphonic
In turn, her fiction felt lively and polyphonic.
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Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
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
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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Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyphonic
Adjective
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As dark as the film can seem, it’s also filled with moments of harmonic bliss whenever the girls perform.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
7 July 2025
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The night celebrated music that bears both glamour and grit because of the raw, cracking power and harmonic warmth of rock and roll's roots in country, folk, jump blues and rockabilly music.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Those groups' ability to transpose the American songbook and European orchestral composition into lovestruck street-corner harmonies allowed gospel soul to supersede the popularity of blues while fusing culture and race into the juggernaut known as rock-and-roll.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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For the orchestral rock band Murder By Death, and its legion of fans, Saturday, Nov. 15 will no doubt be an emotional night.—
Kirby Adams,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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Shakedown leaves the attic and lets the light run over their guitars, with streaks of brightness and a rhythmic tightness that ditches the glorious sloppiness of bar italia’s earlier music.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
9 July 2025
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Gains from the sectors and its rhythmic strength help the single push 45-44 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart.—
Trevor Anderson,
Billboard,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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Get in on the trend in this subtly boxy shirt with allover tonal floral lace embroidery.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
People.com,
5 July 2025
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Picking up in a universe near the one represented in Mott’s last book, the award-winning Hell of A Book, People Like Us involves the same tonal gymnastics.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.—
Giovanni Russonello,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Filled with fierce lyric tenderness and clear-eyed commitment to revolutionary aesthetic, Terror Counter devoted to the redemption of the self from a world ready to usurp this resistance.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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Apple also doubled down on games, added new features, including lyric translation to Apple Music, and introduced new options for its Vision Pro headset, among other things.—
Michele Luhn,
CNBC,
10 June 2025
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“Polyphonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyphonic. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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