chorus
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Miley Cyrus joined the chorus of celebrities mourning the loss of Dolly Parton, penning a heartfelt tribute to the transcendent country music star-humanitarian who was also her godmother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
It also gives non-Asian chorus members a reason to be present at Butterfly’s wedding, though having a group of American ladies sing the invocation “O Kami! O Kami!” from song sheets seemed peculiar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
To illustrate my point, consider the three occasions over the last decade when I devoted a column to taking issue with a chorus of voices calling for Cook to step down.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
Now that you have the sweet chorus of “Can you take me higher?” in your head, our work here is done.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
A chorus of numbers rang out: One, five, twelve.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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
It’s not as though we have a bunch of huge singsong choruses where everybody can hold hands and get their phones out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Sandi choruses: “What business is it of Otto’s if you’ve gotten your period or no?”
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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
“Right 30,” his mates chorused back, shifting direction slightly.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2015
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
“He did!” the two chorused, each pointing at his opponent.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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
Kate was glutted, drunk with the sound of the verbal music that had been chorusing behind her lips; while for Irene every word seemed charged with the significance of special revelation.
From The Madigans by Orson Lowell
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