quintet

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Recent Examples of quintet Now, the Australian group holds steady with its four smashes, while Queen ups its count to a quintet of champions. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025 That quintet, spanning this region’s vast accomplishments between the 1960s and this current decade, will be honored May 15 in San Francisco. Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025 Their 2022-23 success was built on the defensively excellent quintet of Pope, Burn, Sven Botman, Fabian Schar and Trippier — who won 17, drew 11 and only lost three of 31 starts together. Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025 Published on February 7, 2025 By Robert Ross Photo : Darin Schnabel, courtesy of RM Sotheby's Photo : Darin Schnabel, courtesy of RM Sotheby's On the center console resides a quaint reminder of the times: a quintet of cassette-tape holders. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quintet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quintet
Noun
  • That quartet helped the Packers reach the NFC Championship Game two straight years, and earn the NFC’s No. 1 seed in 2021.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • After a short stint in the quartet A4 during the late Nineties, Wheesung (who is also sometimes recorded as Realslow) kicked off his solo career in 2002 with his debut album, Like a Movie.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, the sextet of localized blazes—the Palisades fire, the Eaton fire, the Hurst fire, the Sunset fire, the Lidia fire, and the Kenneth fire—blurred in the public mind and in the sprawl of destruction into one great undifferentiated inferno.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That record marked their first full-length album since 2013’s Mosquito, with the trio pursuing solo albums and other projects in the intervening years.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Even more notably, all of the band’s current wins appear inside the highest half of the list, as the rockers rack up a trio of top five bestsellers.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Building on her long-running septet, the New York City flutist and composer started setting poetry to music.
    Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Under the pact, the duo will develop and produce series through their company Midwest Livestock, Inc.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The dynamic duo charmed everyone in their path, including two Russian models who were offering caviar bites from IKRAA.
    Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The project marks just the 19th K-pop album to top the chart, as well as the octet’s sixth title to reach the chart’s summit.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Ever since her husband died from a bee sting, the matriarch has smoothly guided her octet of rapscallions through proposals, scandals, and balloon disasters.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 14 June 2024
Noun
  • Over the years, Gabe has starred in several comedy troupes onstage and landed roles in TV and movies.
    Emy LaCroix, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • For Johnson, the decision to create a troupe of actors who would play different characters throughout was both practical and philosophical.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025

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