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Recent Examples of sextet
No song was left unturned by this cheerful and nearly perfect sextet.
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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
The sextet’s energy was palpable inside the Barclays from beginning to end, as the excited crowd with arms waving saw Dickinson roam the stage and twirl the mike stand; the intensity in his wicked singing had not diminished over the decades.
—David Chiu, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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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
The sextet’s energy was palpable inside the Barclays from beginning to end, as the excited crowd with arms waving saw Dickinson roam the stage and twirl the mike stand; the intensity in his wicked singing had not diminished over the decades.
—David Chiu, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sextet
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Few musical rites of passage are as exhilarating as the big comeback album, and Amor Elefante’s Amigas finds the quartet, now with new member Lucila Pivetta on bass, beaming with joy at the chance of reconnecting.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
28 Feb. 2025
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Seeing Nirvana fill a quartet of rungs is not unusual.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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On Saturday, March 1, Dana Salzman and her quintet perform funky originals.—
Anne Gelhaus,
The Mercury News,
16 Feb. 2025
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British jazz quintet and 2023 Mercury Prize recipients, Ezra Collective, will make their Brits debut with four nominations in the same categories.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
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Nirvana, the compilation, also finds a home on a trio of rankings, though its performance does not match Nevermind.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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That includes Amazon and a trio of other Club names: Microsoft, Meta Platforms , and Alphabet .—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 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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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
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The Panthers’ checking pair is a go One pairing up front that worked well, unsurprisingly, was the Florida Panthers duo of Anton Lundell and Eetu Luostarinen.—
Arpon Basu,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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While keeping their relationship a secret for professional reasons, an unexpected promotion unravels their fraught romance, fueling a violent competition between the duo.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 Feb. 2025
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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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But the troupe—a ragtag team which also includes castmates Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts, plus the writer-musician Felix Hagan—carried on.—
Juan A. Ramírez,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
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Sought-after by prominent dance companies in the United States and abroad, Tanowitz continues to head her twenty-five-year-old troupe, Pam Tanowitz Dance.—
Guillermo Perez,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Sextet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sextet. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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