Even when a mother is not actually singing to a baby she tends to speak in a musical way, he says, with the notes and inflections of her words going up and down, and a clear rhythm.

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American Jessie Williams, the reigning world champion, couldn't find his rhythm and was eliminated after failing to clear 2.29 meters.

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The water was gin clear and the huge kelp fronds were in a mad rhythm of bending, then standing straight up, swinging and heaving to the forces of the sea.

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