tonal
adjective
pertaining to or having tonality.
tonally
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a word derived from
tonal.
Example Sentences
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They are also keen to double down on the idea that Andy Burnham is seeking to be tonally and stylistically different in how he does the job.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Was it hard to balance that tonally with his great accomplishments in basketball?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
Another essay was published this week, a shorter one, less tonally academic but carrying a sharper sense of urgency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
So we get town halls with Erika Kirk, helicopter flights over Dallas with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and another platform for rapid response that’s tonally indistinguishable from the degraded discourse it ostensibly opposes.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
And when she sang fortissimo all the Strauss horses and all the Strauss men were as supine, tonally speaking, as Humpty Dumpty.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
