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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
Hala Mustafa, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2025
Audio Background music and jingles can help create a pleasant atmosphere, which improves the overall user experience.
—Karan Sharma, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Jim Asker, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2024
Shoppers find last-minute Christmas gifts at area businesses Bells jingled on shop doors as people wandered in and out of stores searching for last-minute gifts on Christmas Eve in Northwest Arkansas.
—Gael Langdon, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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Noun
In recent years, brands have gone beyond simple jingles.
—Hala Mustafa, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2025
Audio Background music and jingles can help create a pleasant atmosphere, which improves the overall user experience.
—Karan Sharma, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
The Decca Christmas Recordings jingles 19-15, surpassing its prior No. 17 high – and marking a new best rank for Lee over her 61-plus-year span of appearing on the chart.
—Jim Asker, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2024
Shoppers find last-minute Christmas gifts at area businesses Bells jingled on shop doors as people wandered in and out of stores searching for last-minute gifts on Christmas Eve in Northwest Arkansas.
—Gael Langdon, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jingle
Noun
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On Tuesday, not so much, the Lakers showing their clear dominance in every area backed by a legendarily springtime loud home crowd that annually shakes, rattles and rolls.—
Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Traditional rattles are still made out of metal cans or gourds and clapper sticks were originally made from elderberry branches, Cohen said.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The power ballad marks her first release as an independent artist through her own label, High Road Records.—
Jack Irvin,
People.com,
2 May 2025
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Or the until-now-untapped viral potential of Celine Dion’s power ballad.—
Francesca Street,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
Verb
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To show that behind the wine glasses clinking in celebration, there are also tears, fears and moments of reckoning.—
Jessica Guerrieri,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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Applause and clinking glasses greeted each celebrity ascent up the Met’s iconic steps.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
7 May 2025
Noun
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No 9, a physical presence up top who wears his shorts like a 1980s Rugby League player and clatters into opponents with a ferocity to match.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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There were hits with a bamboo clatter stick, which projects a rattling sound.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The Vantage Roadster produces less deep, NASCAR rumble, and more the song of a high-revving DTM race car.—
Jonny Lieberman,
Robb Report,
12 May 2025
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Related Stories Pope Leo XIV Chooses Papal Name with Long History 2025 Papal Conclave to Pick New Pope: Full Recap The prayer acknowledged their sins and asked for God's forgiveness, after which followed songs and a period of worship.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
12 May 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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Next to Margaret, one of the two angels holds a book of song, once thought to be a hymn by the English composer Walter Frye but now identified as musical gibberish.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
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The hymn implores the saints to help the cardinals find a successor to Pope Francis to lead the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
Verb
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Wedding bells are ringing at grocery stores thanks to Blue Bell Creameries.—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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For example, just as a bell ringing slightly out of tune might indicate a crack or imperfection, deviations in gravitational wave frequencies can point to asymmetries in the black hole's shape.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Jingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jingle. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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