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Recent Examples of sextet
That feat was last achieved by the sextet of actresses featured in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver, which included Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, and Lola Dueñas.
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
No song was left unturned by this cheerful and nearly perfect sextet.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 30 Oct. 2024
And that quartet of power right-handers could still become a sextet, with Topa close to returning from a season-long knee injury and Varland on call for a second straight September shift to relief.
—Aaron Gleeman, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
The King's Singers The long-running English vocal sextet, founded in the 1960s by choral scholars of King's College, Cambridge, bring their holiday program to the Bradley Symphony Center, 212 W. Wisconsin Ave.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
No song was left unturned by this cheerful and nearly perfect sextet.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 30 Oct. 2024
And that quartet of power right-handers could still become a sextet, with Topa close to returning from a season-long knee injury and Varland on call for a second straight September shift to relief.
—Aaron Gleeman, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
The King's Singers The long-running English vocal sextet, founded in the 1960s by choral scholars of King's College, Cambridge, bring their holiday program to the Bradley Symphony Center, 212 W. Wisconsin Ave.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sextet
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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The quartet, which now includes former Heartbreakers drummer Steve Ferrone, will join Chris Stapleton for All-American Road Show stops on June 12-13 in Grand Rapids, Mich., and will be playing a selection of summer shows with Blackberry Smoke starting July 25-26 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.—
Gary Graff,
Billboard,
18 Mar. 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
Noun
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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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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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The duo wanted to create something special for Urie’s first entrance and pay tribute to Cynthia Erivo, who stars in the movie and was honored at the GLAAD Awards with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award for her efforts in enhancing visibility and fostering acceptance of LGBTQIA+ individuals and issues.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
28 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps one day, the duo can fulfill that prophecy.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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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“Sextet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sextet. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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