drumbeat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of drumbeat
Example Sentences
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Firms large and small are shedding jobs, and there is a steady drumbeat of redundancy announcements in sectors ranging from automotive to factory equipment makers.
From Barron's
By this point in his life, Beethoven has had it with weapons, the drumbeat of soldiers, the addictive emotion of trumpet calls to action.
From Los Angeles Times
Foreign central-bank buying — along with a drumbeat of calls for lower U.S. interest rates and the potential long-term debasement of the dollar — is “very hard to stop.”
From MarketWatch
Most critical for Wasserman and Providence was the announcement of a sale itself, since it helped slow the drumbeat of artists speaking out and agents threatening to leave.
Truist analyst C. Patrick Scholes said that while the CEO departure wasn’t a 100% surprise, “there was not a particularly loud drumbeat from angry investors and/or activists demanding action from the board.”
From Barron's
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