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chorus

[kawr-uhs, kohr-] / ˈkɔr əs, ˈkoʊr- /




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Thirteen tries in total, with Will Joseph's five putting him in the centre of the chorus line.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

It becomes memory, subconscious and Greek chorus at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

More joined the chorus in the wake of the announcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

After England beat New Zealand at Allianz Stadium in September, she spent an hour signing autographs and doing selfies to an unrelenting, screaming chorus of "Ellie, Ellie, Ellie".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

I stood in our new yard, not brown now but lit gray-blue from the full moon, and I listened to the nighttime chorus of singing toads and bugs.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

And just like she promises in my summer staple, Bonnie Tyler’s huge choruses and blockbuster anthems will be ravishing us until the end of this endless night.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

It was already after midnight—Sunday morning, July 8—when Ellington launched “Diminuendo and Crescendo” with a few blues choruses of his own on piano.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Blending folk-infused pop songs with anthemic choruses, he has built a reputation for emotionally open songwriting.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Fortunately, the new records are roughly divisible by genre and aesthetic and thus are easy to differentiate: “Iceman” is the pure rap record, where guest spots, choruses and even hooks are few.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

But large choruses, soloists and orchestra were bread and butter to Bach in his Passions, Handel in his oratorios, Mozart in his Requiem and Haydn in his grand choral works.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Another Slate colleague, at a bar in southern Italy, reported that all the Americans similarly looked at their phones at once and chorused “Guilty!”

From Slate ● May 30, 2024

“We are revolutionaries. We are free,” they chorused.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2021

For whatever reason — faith, common sense, a well-functioning moral compass and BS detector — Butler found it within himself to say “no” while a powerful, high-minded flock all around him chorused “yes.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2016

I can still hear the chorused voices of those little Grady twins almost as well as I can recall some of my favorite songs.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2011

“From MIT! Really!” chorused Helen and Theresa; and, faintly, Ralph.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

It can be hard on the eardrums when all those cicadas get together in those trees and start chorusing.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

This time, you have chosen to call in, to take a couple of minutes of your day to hear some Hall and Oates, or “My Old Kentucky Home,” or a tinny recording of chorusing cicadas.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2021

BST03:17 This is the kind of scene that Cameron and his team must have been hoping for when planning his visit to Lebanon – Syrian refugee children chorusing “thank you” to the prime minister.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 14, 2015

Arkansas is also home to annual cicadas, which will emerge and begin their chorusing.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2015

“Good,” the days are chorusing, “shall triumph;” Though the far-off morrows whisper, “When?”

From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Thomas Buford Meteyard


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