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Kuo would croon standards like “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Weir’s playing was nimble and intuitive, his voice a sly croon that got appealingly craggy with age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026

Hearing Nat King Cole croon about chestnuts roasting on an open fire dozens of times is one of the many reminders that fireplaces are luxuries most of us don’t have.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025

More recent interpreters underline the song’s vast reach, from Harolyn Blackwell’s operatic radiance and Norah Jones’s hushed Tanglewood version to Kenny Barron’s pensive piano meditation and Willie Nelson’s weathered country croon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Through the thin walls, I hear Pop's snores, Nan shifting in her sleep, a mourning dove's croon.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Now, as I ride through Koreatown, Alicia Keys croons, “Everything’s gonna be all right.”

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

“Tu que sabes lo que hago dile que no soy malo,” the Dominican artist croons in the pleadingly romantic track.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

As Sammie croons, he’s joined by an electric guitarist playing like Jimi Hendrix but dressed like a member of Parliament-Funkadelic.

From Salon ● May 2, 2025

Later, on the acoustic guitar ballad If You Ever Change Your Mind, he croons, "I love you, I love you," with a quiet sincerity rarely found in a pop record.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025

“Let’s tear through Tokyo from zero to sixty / yeah, like we’re running out of time in this city,” she croons.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

The wholesome Rodgers and Hammerstein tunes have been taught in classrooms, crooned in karaoke bars and used in U.S.-China diplomacy for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

If you can make it there, as Frank Sinatra crooned, you’ll make it anywhere.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

Diplomatic wheels, it seemed, were in motion, even as the lack of detail left many around the world with suspicious minds, as Elvis once crooned.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

They have crooned to covers of Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter, danced in the style of K-pop stars and pretended to have beef with other boy bands—and Katy Perry, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

“You wouldn’t harm an old woman, Percy,” she crooned.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

For many, the waterfront that Lebanese singer Fairouz immortalised in 1961 -- crooning about "the coast of Alexandria, coast of love" -- is no more.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

The label is fitting in part on a literal level because Gunn ends his movie on Superman’s smiling face with the song “Punkrocker,” which features Iggy Pop crooning, “I’m a punkrocker, yes I am.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

No amount of Kate Bush’s heroic crooning will save them.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025

The tour comes hot on the heels of Gaga's latest album, Mayhem, widely regarded as a return to high-concept pop after a spell of method acting and jazz crooning.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

Will listened hard, and heard it too: a low crooning murmur interrupted occasionally by a harsh laugh or a short cry of anger.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman