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chorus

[kawr-uhs, kohr-] / ˈkɔr əs, ˈkoʊr- /




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The Australian, who, like Borthwick, had been heavily backed by the RFU, was eventually forced out after a November 2022 defeat by South Africa was met by a chorus of jeers from the Twickenham stands.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Pulling that off demands hundreds of employees, from the orchestra to the chorus to the stagehands, along with sets and costumes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

"Let's go, Lula!" the oft-repeated phrase mingled in the air with a non-stop chorus of honking horns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Of course, Hurts has a cheering section, but their voices are often drowned out by the chorus and echoes of criticism.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

Roz finally slunk into the shadows behind a school building and listened as the chorus of dogs settled down.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

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

She’s not a diva belting out choruses and taking up space—instead, she sometimes seems like a master of ceremonies, someone hosting the party rather than hogging the spotlight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

As he spoke, the crowd interrupted him again and again with waves of applause and choruses of hearty cheers.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2021

One pocket of the room raised their glasses, chorused “Hopp Suisse!” and drained them.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2018

With its “bouncy bouncy” refrain chorused by the female backing vocalists, the infuriatingly catchy Rubber Ball was Vee’s first British hit, peaking at No 4 at the beginning of 1961.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2016

“A-menable,” the twins chorused in misery, barely stumbling over the unusual word.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

The 78ers follow the First Nations and the crowd is cheering and grinning, cries of “Thank you!” chorusing up from the stands.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2018

Arkansas is also home to annual cicadas, which will emerge and begin their chorusing.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2015

Frogs were chorusing in the distance, and the dynamo in the electric power house on the edge of the town kept up its constant nocturnal droning.

From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Burt L. Standish


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