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choir

noun as in chorus

noun as in glee club

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Singing and talking, particularly when done loudly, are risky activities, as researchers learned from the Washington choir practice that became a Covid-19 superspreader event.

From Quartz

Experts have pointed to the spread of the virus in choirs, buses, fitness classes and other poorly ventilated spaces.

If you look at superspreading events, for example the Washington choir case, it is impossible they are being spread by droplets.

In one notorious case, a single person at a choir practice in Washington state infected 52 others, leading to two deaths.

From Vox

A database of Covid-19 superspreading events around the world lists numerous choir practices and a few concerts as sources of contagion.

From Vox

I know the verse because Mrs. Bertalan used to have us do it in ninth-grade choir.

Here it is being performed by the Westminster Cathedral Choir.

But I was a choir geek, and then got frustrated and took an acting class and realized that was the thing for me.

It was in the vestry where the choir was putting on its garments.

Then, as I sat here on this “throne,” this beautiful choir struck my ears and senses.

The steady use of the organ for an hour-and-a-half's choir rehearsal would exhaust the batteries.

When fifteen he became voluntary organist and choir-master to the Birkenhead School Chapel.

B'lieves in candles and vestures; got Tim into the choir one Sunday, and now you can't keep him out of it.

The body is an octagon of thirty-two feet diameter; and the choir, of the same shape, is twenty-one feet in diameter.

This is also a good point from which to study the clerestory as seen in choir and crossing.

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On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to choir, such as: ensemble, carolers, chorale, choristers, vocalists, and voices.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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