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chorus

[kawr-uhs, kohr-] / ˈkɔr əs, ˈkoʊr- /




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But if you were in that meadow with hundreds of happy people sighing out every “ah-ah” in unison, you would have quickly picked up that refrain and maybe even joined the chorus.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

They all add up to a chorus of serious voices urging a slowdown, but although it might sound like a quick fix, it is far from an easy solution.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Originally a collaboration with controversial rapper Ye, also known as Kanye West, Jay-Z left his voice in for the chorus but cut his verses out.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

So I started putting down ideas, and I realized: Should I reveal that it’s about an apartment right off the bat, or should I wait till the last line of the chorus?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

And then everybody got the idea, and it became a sort of song with a verse of “Please, Ms. Washington” and a chorus of “Please, please, please.”

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

“Is It Cool?,” a character study of an incorrigible cheater, sports one of his most villainous choruses — “You ain’t got to trust me to love me, babe.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

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

Six minutes and 26 additional choruses later, Gonsalves and Ellington had completely changed the fortunes of the band, of the Rhode Island festival, and even American music itself.

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

All around us the noise level rises and falls, punctuated by choruses of alohas sung out by greeters and families alike.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

Just lie back, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page chorused, and let us find the answers.

From Washington Post Apr. 28, 2023

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

From Seattle Times Oct. 25, 2021

“Yes on A.B. 5! Yes on A.B. 5!” they chorused.

From New York Times Sep. 9, 2019

“Good afternoon, sir!” we chorused eagerly, bumping fists with him.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

A ghoul might seem to have set it going, and laughing hyenas to be chorusing it.

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood




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