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baroque

[buh-rohk, ba-rawk] / bəˈroʊk, baˈrɔk /


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It has a chorus that would make Celine Dion jealous, and features a baroque piano breakdown before an almighty key change in the final refrain.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

As the Cosmic Weatherman, John Mburu ably demonstrated how smoothly baroque arias for bass—regardless of their original subjects—can be repurposed as howls of despair about a modern apocalypse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Lately, however, there are signs that the story has entered its baroque phase, as firms have to reach further and further to meet heightened expectations, and some new efforts begin to feel overwrought.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

This dip takes its inspiration from a more baroque, arguably campy, ancestor: the seven-layer.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2025

His presence surprised me, since it was against his character to seek the trauma of watching two thousand bread-and-butter biochemists pile in and out of badly lighted baroque lecture halls.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson




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