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backbeat

noun

Definition of backbeat

as in rhythm

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Recent Examples of backbeat Sly Dunbar, the legendary Jamaican drummer who helped steer reggae‘s modern evolution while providing the backbeat to countless recordings, has died. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026 The album started with quiet wind and then turned into a tornado of thunder and sirens, swordplay and gunfire over big horns and a funky soul backbeat. — Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026 Buzzing melodies of alt-rock drift over midtown and in the places in between—licks, backbeats and inspirations are traded by musicians and producers bar for bar. — Joe Sills, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026 But this year’s celebrations are soundtracked to a jarring backbeat as the country strains under economic pressure, insecurity and the biggest buzzkill of all — a government trying to cash in on the cool. — Vanessa Offiong, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for backbeat

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Noun

The luxury resort has truly found its rhythm, fresh enough to still feel like a discovery, and sitting directly in the path of one of the most valuable luxury audiences to arrive in Las Vegas all year.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Back to the opening sequence, anyway, in which Lê tunes his film’s rhythms while Ninh fiddles with his own sound equipment.

— Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of rhythm

Noun

Although a recording of the night of the killer’s arrest ended up being inadmissible in court, since Gein hadn’t been read his Miranda rights, Hunnam still used it as a tool in order to learn the cadence of his voice.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
Over the past two years, my firm has run structured executive-name queries across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity—same person, same prompt, refreshed on a cadence.

— Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of cadence

Noun

The result was a movie of the solar surface with a new frame every two seconds and a spatial resolution of about 19 kilometers—right at the theoretical limit of what a 4-meter mirror can do at that wavelength.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
After 20 folds the paper is actually 1,048,576 times thicker—almost 105 meters, longer than a football field.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026

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