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as in ballad
a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment
loved that jingle in the commercial for the fast-food place
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Recent Examples of jingle
Spin Editors, SPIN, 21 Jan. 2025
The latest currency, the world’s newest, came with pomp and fanfare — promotional catchy jingles and songs played repeatedly on public radio, television and online.
—Farai Mutsaka, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 17 Dec. 2024
Christmas stays and plays December is just moments away and those jingle bells are jingling.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
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Noun
The song is supposedly about how corporations care more about profit than creativity but this song was made to be a commercial jingle, as this Quilted Northern commercial so aptly illustrates.
—Spin Editors, SPIN, 21 Jan. 2025
The latest currency, the world’s newest, came with pomp and fanfare — promotional catchy jingles and songs played repeatedly on public radio, television and online.
—Farai Mutsaka, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
This winter, tastemakers are jingling all the way with purses bedecked in handbag charms.
—Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 17 Dec. 2024
Christmas stays and plays December is just moments away and those jingle bells are jingling.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jingle
Noun
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But throwing away rattle sans Tershers’ permission seems weird.—
George Saunders,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Other residents in New Hampshire and Rhode Island also reported the rattle.—
Stephen Sorace,
Fox News,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
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Over his now decade-and-a-half-long career, fans of the alt-pop auteur—real name Mike Hadreas—have only seen his work grow in scale and power, evolving from twinkling piano bedroom ballads to ambitious blasts of sonic splendor that careen through the gray areas between genre.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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As seen in a video shared on X by royal reporter Rebecca English, the King and Queen clinked their drinks together before sipping it down in one go.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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But hey, the man clearly loves love and clinks his champagne glass until the happy couple performs another painful-looking kiss.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The solid construction of this slick pair of cans combines with the brand’s excellent adaptive noise-canceling technology to block out almost all the ambient clatter in your environment.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
26 Mar. 2025
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You're seated up high, deafened by the clatter and bangs from the empty, boxy body, which, again, is exactly like that built on a traditional truck.—
Tim Stevens,
Ars Technica,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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While all of the songs are performed in their original Spanish, the dialogue is completely in English.—
Nicholas Ducassi,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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There are also plenty of new songs (even the trio of musical numbers carried over from the original have extensive new lyrics from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul), though none of them have the same special, ineffable quality of the originals.—
Josh Spiegel,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Shaking the capsules produces audio signals that range from rattling stones, over tinkling coins to swooshing sand.—
Erico Guizzo,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Oct. 2018
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Jeff Goldblum tinkled the ivories during a moving In Memoriam section at the BAFTA Film Awards.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The pair sang along to hymns and the UK’s national anthem, and smiled while watching the performances.—
Lauren Said-Moorhouse,
CNN,
10 Mar. 2025
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Renditions of those melancholic hymns, which often told of homesickness and heartbreak, played from a speaker in the courtyard.—
Chris Schalkx,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Feb. 2025
Verb
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For a player who’s as aggressive down the field as Ward tends to be, that rings even truer.—
Derrik Klassen,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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When World Series tickets went on sale to the non-season-ticket-holding public, thousands ringed Fenway Park for a shot at the leftovers.—
Bill Speros,
Boston Herald,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Jingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jingle. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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