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Recent Examples of tonal
The pieces have tonal text blocks, laser-etchings, as well as streamlined collars to emphasize design simplicity and purpose.
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Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
Vogue’s Favorite Pop of Red Pieces On the fall/winter 2025 runways, red made a bold statement, from the glossy shoes at Ferragamo and Gucci to the red separates seen at Bally and Fendi to the tonal ensembles seen at Miu Miu, Valentino, and Saint Laurent.
—Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2025
It’s designed with a smocked and ruffled neckline, adjustable spaghetti straps, and a tonal plaid pattern, and the hemline hits about two inches above my knees.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
But there was a notable tonal shift after the pair saw each other in person for the first time after their engagement in episode three.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025
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Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
Vogue’s Favorite Pop of Red Pieces On the fall/winter 2025 runways, red made a bold statement, from the glossy shoes at Ferragamo and Gucci to the red separates seen at Bally and Fendi to the tonal ensembles seen at Miu Miu, Valentino, and Saint Laurent.
—Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2025
It’s designed with a smocked and ruffled neckline, adjustable spaghetti straps, and a tonal plaid pattern, and the hemline hits about two inches above my knees.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
But there was a notable tonal shift after the pair saw each other in person for the first time after their engagement in episode three.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonal
Adjective
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The effect is of a double weave of associations, a harmonic convergence.—
David L. Ulin,
The Atlantic,
6 Oct. 2025
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What matters is the cumulative buzz, the sense of harmonic slippage — the graininess in what looks, on paper, like a simple major chord.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Rachel Fuller’s orchestral version of The Who album, recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, is the backdrop for this production, which is costumed by British fashion house Paul Smith.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
15 Oct. 2025
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Finest City Brass & Percussion, a symphonic brass ensemble of 25-30 musicians, will perform new music for brass instruments and orchestral music adapted for large brass ensembles.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Oct. 2025
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The union results in a colorful, rhythmic and festive song that celebrates the spirit of Santa Marta and that city, the oldest in Colombia, on its 500th anniversary.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2025
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Daniel Jones’ success is becoming less of a novelty and more of a logical endpoint in Shane Steichen’s rhythmic system.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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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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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
2 Mar. 2020
Adjective
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Similarly, the dozens of people whom Greaves interviews in the film aren’t delivering a single and univocal history of the Harlem Renaissance but a polyphonic transmission of it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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Angela Flournoy follows her highly honored first novel, The Turner House (2016), with an illuminating polyphonic exploration of the glorious heights and darkest lows of friendships among four women.—
Jane Ciabattari
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 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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Lamar and Clipse, however, are lyrical titans.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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In the New Visions competition for first- and second-time features, Spanish helmer Jaume Claret Muxart nabbed the Golden Puffin for his lyrical coming-of-age film that captures the discovery of desire.—
Alissa Simon,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Tonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonal. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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