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Recent Examples of chorus
Noun
If the whole song had been percussive like that, the chorus wouldn’t have stood out.—Justin Curto, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024 Pawn shops, firearms manufacturers and mining companies have joined a growing chorus of industries that say banks are discriminating against them, while Muslim charities and Jan. 6 rioters say they’ve also been targeted for political reasons.—David Ingram, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
Verb
Two rooms formerly used as locker rooms are now the home to chorus and band.—Lily Jackson | Ljackson@al.com, al, 8 Oct. 2019 Outside Carnegie Hall, choir performers from Millennial Choirs and Orchestra chorused as the evening sun dipped low in the sky.—Morgan Krakow, Washington Post, 14 July 2019 See all Example Sentences for chorus
Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.
Thomas Adamson and John Leicester,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Dec. 2024
The producer – who’s previously worked with John Williams and Herbie Hancock – assembled the track using all-new instrumental arrangements by Rob Mounsey, recording rhythm section backings in Los Angeles and the orchestra and choir parts in Europe.
The call sign of Radio Mali is a refrain from the Epic of Sundiata that Balla Fasséké Kouyaté first performed.
Eliot Stein,
Rolling Stone,
9 Dec. 2024
The only relief from the monotony, and from worrying about the anguish my family must have been undergoing over my disappearance, was—bizarrely—the melodious voice of a female prisoner in another cell singing a Christian hymn that included 'Save me Jesus' in its refrain.
This would appear to chime with the priorities the SPL outlined at the start of the current season.
Matt Slater,
The Athletic,
14 Dec. 2024
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The beauty pageant world has been forced to modernize in recent years, as the values the shows traditionally embraced do not chime with younger generations.
The stock market swooned Wednesday in response to a piece of news that might not seem all that dire on first read: The Federal Reserve could cut interest rates fewer times than experts had predicted, in 2025.
Daniel de Visé,
USA TODAY,
19 Dec. 2024
In response to the outcry, Citi Bike changed its A.P.I. so the data was no longer accessible in real time.
Wind gusts of 30 to 50 mph will roar over the Northeast and parts of the mid-Atlantic Thursday including in Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York City.
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