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chorus

[kawr-uhs, kohr-] / ˈkɔr əs, ˈkoʊr- /




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He performed the 1986 megahit, with the audience belting the chorus in his place toward the end.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

The song's chorus is a masterclass in melody and, in Maskin's words, "smacks you in the face".

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Bank of New York Mellon BNY 2.14%increase; up pointing triangle joined the chorus of big banks reporting blowout results for the second quarter, during which earnings soared on higher interest income and fee revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

I can hardly remember if I joined the chorus, or if the excitement was so heavy that I just felt like an equal part of it.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

“We’re the chorus line,” she said, pushing her hair back with her right hand.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

It was already after midnight—Sunday morning, July 8—when Ellington launched “Diminuendo and Crescendo” with a few blues choruses of his own on piano.

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

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

I stood by the door while she finished the hymn and ran through choruses of “Maple Leaf Rag,” “Georgia Blues,” and “Good Ole Summertime,” which she hummed, then played again, singing the words.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

A penny for his thoughts as he held the Europa League aloft and those in the Chelsea end chorused in celebration as they waved their plastic blue flags.

From The Guardian May 15, 2013

Live or die, live or die? they chorused.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

The system flags trouble spots with an alphabet app—Jayden is having trouble with difference between “C “and “K,” for instance—that might be easy to miss when the whole class is chorusing the alphabet together.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2012

Flocks of them followed at a distance, a train of worshipers, chorusing the glory of the new-born wonder.

From The Curious Book of Birds by Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd)




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