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Recent Examples of octet
The octet must race around to bash open crates, carry bombs back to their homebase and launch them at Bowser before time runs out.
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
In the end, Houston, Alabama, Texas A&M, Oregon, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Creighton and San Diego State signed on to be the Players Era’s inaugural octet.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2024
In July, the octet dropped ATE, earning its fifth consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2024
But the English-language track does act as an introduction to the octet's latest artistic foray.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
In the end, Houston, Alabama, Texas A&M, Oregon, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Creighton and San Diego State signed on to be the Players Era’s inaugural octet.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2024
In July, the octet dropped ATE, earning its fifth consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2024
But the English-language track does act as an introduction to the octet's latest artistic foray.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for octet
Noun
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The quartet even took their show to the big screen with Impractical Jokers: The Movie before Gatto's departure.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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Likewise, Aston Villa have a quartet — Matty Cash (Nottingham Forest), Morgan Rogers (West Brom), Ezri Konsa (Charlton) and Tyrone Mings (Ipswich and Bournemouth) — who have progressed from either the Championship or League One to England’s top tier.—
Liam Tharme,
The Athletic,
18 Mar. 2025
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Now, Jimin has surpassed the poppy tune that helped introduce his group to an even wider Western audience – even beating that septet’s best showing.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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These people found one another at the civil rights movement’s apogee, and their septet — Black and white, men and women — was a union that advertised integration’s frictionless possibility.—
Wesley Morris,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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This class of 911 certainly seems to have captured the imagination of the unnamed owner of the sextet headed for auction.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
19 Mar. 2025
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Charlie Gurke, a baritone saxophone specialist who also plays tenor and alto, is the youngest member of the sextet and latest to join.—
Andrew Gilbert,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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The quintet of Adebayo, Herro, Burks, Larsson and Ware was Miami’s 25th different starting group of the season.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2025
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The quintet collides influences — flourishes of glitchy industrial electronic flourishes, lonesome country-western instrumentation, ornate chamber pop — and tinker with all sorts of pop-rock conventions.—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
26 Mar. 2025
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Obviously, the focus is around the original trio [Giddens, Flemons, and Robinson] but there were a lot of people who’ve been through the Chocolate Drops: Hubby Jenkins, Leyla McCalla, Súle Greg Wilson.—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
23 Mar. 2025
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The trio reluctantly decide to split up and let Pete go off on his own to find water.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps one day, the duo can fulfill that prophecy.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The duo is currently in the studio with producer Julian Raymond working on their debut project slated for release later this year.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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Clad in black and hovering around the star, dancing adroitly in and out of the shadows, Williams’s cine-theatre army functions like a troupe of bunraku puppeteers.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2025
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He's also become a regular in Wes Anderson's troupe of A-listers, having starred in Isle of Dogs (2018), Asteroid City (2023), and this year's The Phoenician Scheme.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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But this momentary interruption in the normal order hardly matters because the ensemble is so comfortably aligned in the theatrical universe that Godwin has created.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Choreographer Tanisha Scott, who has worked with Rihanna, Drake and Beyoncé, created Pascal’s dance moves, supported by an ensemble of backup dancers.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Octet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/octet. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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