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Recent Examples of tonal
Smart teased that the final season represents a tonal return after a heavier fourth outing.
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Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
The Thin Red Line is a rich, tonal tapestry.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
Purple Cherry also notes its susceptibility to light sources poses a difficult challenge; daily natural light shifts, light fixtures, and shadows can change how chartreuse looks throughout the day or even create tonal shifts visible on a single wall.
—Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2026
Calik’s new colors for the season reflect a broader shift toward nuanced color storytelling, where even small tonal differences play a key role in product differentiation.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 10 Apr. 2026
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Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
The Thin Red Line is a rich, tonal tapestry.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
Purple Cherry also notes its susceptibility to light sources poses a difficult challenge; daily natural light shifts, light fixtures, and shadows can change how chartreuse looks throughout the day or even create tonal shifts visible on a single wall.
—Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2026
Calik’s new colors for the season reflect a broader shift toward nuanced color storytelling, where even small tonal differences play a key role in product differentiation.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 10 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonal
Adjective
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Using the Gemini laser to fire intense pulses into a plasma mirror moving at relativistic speeds, researchers have successfully demonstrated relativistic harmonic generation.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Apr. 2026
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This vast bundle of life and existence whirrs continually, creating the comforting harmonic tone that defines this place.—
Stephen Trimble,
Denver Post,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The songs’ spines are elastic, accommodating the acoustic, the electronic, the Caribbean, the bombastically orchestral, in arrangements that always seem fun for performers to brand with their likeness.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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The artistic potential in Sphere is a long way from Halpin’s earlier work in production design and creative direction for Pink, Cher, Christina Aguilera, and George Michael’s final tour, Symphonica, which paired the late singer with orchestral accompanists.—
Leena Tailor,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The novel delivers all the frenzy of a gold rush with rhythmic, hypnotic prose.—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
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Ditto the sophisticated modulations and subtle rhythmic shifts that underpin Puth’s best songs.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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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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We are left just with voices, and those voices, in the novel’s subtle and canny repetitions, begin to merge with one another, becoming polyphonic.—
Nicholas Dames,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2026
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The choral elements on the record shine most vividly on the title track, which features polyphonic swells of voices humming melodies, overtaking the piano, dropping and then rising again.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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My introduction to homophonic translation came from my former teacher, Mónica de la Torre.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Jan. 2026
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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
Adjective
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From the pristine production to the runs and riffs, Kehlani puts on a masterclass of technical songbuilding and lyrical storytelling.—
Adelle Platon,
VIBE.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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Her rapid-fire lyrical delivery with her two backup singers coupled with horns even more scintillating live illustrated why that song deserves its exclamation point.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Tonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonal. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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