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chorus

[kawr-uhs, kohr-] / ˈkɔr əs, ˈkoʊr- /




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This week has seen a chorus of calls for things to go further.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

His one pop hit, “Loser,” was built upon a slide-guitar riff and a breakbeat; verses were rapped; and the chorus, a mix of English and Spanish, was a singalong rock anthem.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Hence, the reason we associate “Hey Jude” with a soaring spirit of optimism is because of that repeating “na-na-na” chorus.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

A masked chorus, moving with the coordination of a Broadway musical ensemble, gives voice to the anxiety and grief of the collective.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

My mind was a chorus of finally, finally, finally.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

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

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

They enjoy an additional layer of theater to complement the cheesy dance routines, outlandish outfits and big singalong choruses on stage.

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

Burnett: My favorite part of the drumming on the record is the choruses of “Baby Don’t Go,” where Ringo played something I never heard him play before.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2026

A couple of years ago, comedian Jack Finnegan joked that Kiedis writes some of the most beautiful choruses in the world, only to flip into sounding like he’s experiencing a medical emergency during his verses.

From Salon Apr. 4, 2026

Instead, she turned on a radio station that promised v-v-v-vintage modern rock and sang along with the choruses.

From "George" by Alex Gino

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

“No, Mr. Habazz,” the three of them chorused together.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

She was listening to those chorusing signals, still whistled from far stations nearer road and river and returned in such imitation of bird voices that bird after bird replied.

From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy




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