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The melody's expressive quality came from the unexpected augmented seconds between some of its notes.

Many international companies value employees who can communicate in a second language.

Scholars debated whether Yeats' poem Second Coming still resonates with modern anxieties.

The music theorist explained that the diminished second, despite its name, is enharmonically equivalent to a unison in many tuning systems.

After an hour of steady work, I suddenly got a second wind and finished the project ahead of schedule.

In late Romantic harmony, composers sometimes used diminished seconds to create subtle chromatic tension between adjacent voices.

The composer used minor seconds sparingly to create tension in the melody.

The melody begins with a major second that gives it a bright, open sound.

In the choir rehearsal, the conductor emphasized tuning the major seconds to avoid dissonance.