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simple time

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noun

Music.
  1. rhythm characterized by two or three beats or pulses to a measure.


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“It’s just a simple time and money and expertise disconnect,” Ball says.

From Seattle Times

More accomplishments quickly followed, like “Shaker Loops” and the chronically underrated “Common Tones in Simple Time” — which, he wrote in his memoir, summed up the goals of Minimalism in its title alone, and served as a farewell to the “chaste, scaled-down aesthetics of that particular style.”

From New York Times

In their first attempt to create a topological phase that would be stable against errors, Potter, Dumitrescu and their colleagues sought to imbue the processor with a simple time symmetry by imparting periodic kicks to the ions—all lined up in one dimension—with regularly repeating laser pulses.

From Scientific American

Your earliest memories begin around 1950, and you recall the ’50s through the eyes of a child as a simple time of stability and wholesome values.

From New York Times

But problems of misidentifications can crop up here: Often what first appears as a simple time management issue or an academic challenge can end up being part of a deeper mental health concern.

From Slate