catchy
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Their goal isn’t to make monitors play catchy tunes, Schlesinger says, but to make alarms easier to distinguish, less irritating and more informative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Xiang has catchy names for what is causing this.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The rising global genre, known for its catchy harmonies and bouncing performance style, inspired the sisters to bring pop elements to their recording sessions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Take a bite out of history: In Part 2 of its series on McGruff the Crime Dog, Slate’s Decoder Ring podcast asks the question: Did a trench-coat-wearing dog’s catchy anti-drug anthems actually work?
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Anyway, probably no one is thinking about an appropriately weighty yet catchy phrase to call our quagmire right now.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
As a pop star it is: Pop has always breached stylistic boundaries, constantly exploiting subcultures to annex whatever might make a song catchier.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
The team behind the charismatic coach has steadily been filing for trademarks on some of his catchier phrases, such as “We keep receipts.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
A general manager encouraged him to adopt the last name Laboe because it sounded catchier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
“It’d be nice to think of a catchier name,” Potter admits.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2022
It isn’t better than the Haydn; it is just catchier.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
It’s one of the set’s catchiest songs, marred only by a corny spoken-word bit—hopefully, she’ll leave these talky bridges behind on her next collection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
A dirty little truth about “feel-good” hits, down to the catchiest ditty, is that they’re rarely a band or an artist’s best work.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
Yes, “ Dancing on My Own,” a 2016 dance remix performed by a British reality show contestant improbably became the catchiest song of last season’s run to the World Series.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
A strange phenomenon appeared on the pop music charts this year: Many of the catchiest songs were also the catchiest songs of 2007, or 1998, or 1987.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
The spirit is that of the scherzo, and the main theme is the catchiest imaginable, the rhythm curious and irresistible, and the entire mood saturnalian.
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