bands

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Until recently, she was known mostly within Shillong's close-knit music circles, in a city better known for rock bands, church choirs and old guitar legends than hip-hop.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

The Chinese were careful to appeal to Trump's love of pomp, greeting him with marching bands, soldiers in lockstep and a cannon salute that echoed through Tiananmen Square.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

‘A lot of bands are giving up on the U.S., for sure.’

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Elsewhere, what used to be roaming bands of Hadzabe men now work as village forest guards, tasked with patrolling vast scrub forests and acacia bushlands to look out for poachers, land grabbers and illegal loggers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

As time passed, the bands spread far and wide, pursuing mammoths, mastodons, rhinoceroses and reindeer.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari