genre
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The shift is particularly urgent in horror, a genre that has long appealed to young audiences and launched new filmmakers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Meagan hopes that Off Campus helps the hockey romance genre attract greater respect, adding that it is often dismissed as "silly, trivial and girly".
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Some believe Colbert’s exit marks the beginning of the end of the broadcast late-night genre, and that may end up being true.
From Salon • May 29, 2026
But data provided by Blanchet shows the genre rapidly tailing off in the early 2010s.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
Though Jelly Roll called a lot of his numbers ‘Blues’, we now know this as the beginning of a distinct genre of its own: jazz.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing genre
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 3
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