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As my former Salon colleague Alison Stine described it in her story about the history of “Hey Jude” as a British football chant, it sounds great when it reverberates through a huge stadium.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

The club is now urging supporters not to engage in the same chant when they face the Blues in the Premier League on Saturday.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

"I was really happy when, at Jantar Mantar, I used to chant 'Jai Bhim', thousands of other people followed," he said, referring to a slogan associated with Dalit icon BR Ambedkar.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Some of that wisdom in Van Tassel’s growing community was centered on “Peace, love and harmony” — a chant that allegedly made someone at The Times suspicious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The chant was nearly finished as Samir searched the faces of his caravan.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

It was startling at the time to hear those chants.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

You know, that place at the end of the Padres’ incessant “Beat L.A.” chants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

That's what a winning goal in a Scottish Cup final win does, but these chants were not for his Hampden heroics as a player, rather for the way his team had responded to adversity.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Young fans slumped on sidewalks, softly singing victory chants as the city slowly came back to life.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

That girl is named Kaede, or so the crowd's chants tell me.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

The set starts reasonably well with the title track, a bouncy synthetic confection with chanted verses that recalls hits from Kesha.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"Sacked in the morning" chanted the Villa fans to De Zerbi who, at times, looked out of ideas once his side fell 2-0 behind.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Ted, you suck! Ted, you suck!” several hundred students chanted for nearly 10 minutes on Saturday morning, standing behind the Republican and booing as Davis attempted to conduct a one-on-one interview.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

Protesters chanted slogans against Sheinbaum and a group burned a cardboard effigy of her.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

After we’d chanted, “Good afternoon, Mr. Kempsey,” he just wanged us our exercise books like Oddjob throwing his hat in Goldfinger.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Soon, the police were there in force, but the dedication of the outraged, chanting crowd demanding the men’s release ensured this would be no ordinary standoff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

In the pouring rain, around 50 protesters with umbrellas gathered outside Istanbul's Caglayan courthouse under the watch of several dozen police, chanting: "Denis Goktas is not alone!"

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

At Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention, when a crowd began chanting “Run again!,”

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

"We are so proud of you," reads a Facebook post from the school, which posted a video of its students and staff gathering to watch Nene's final performance, screaming and chanting her name.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

I think of Papá at temple chanting prayers in Hebrew and Mamá memorizing the Spanish songs her mother passed down to her.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar