flute
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One woman whips out a flute to play a song from KPop Demon Hunters.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But as if rescued by a magic flute, an instant of fear turned to joy, glittery gold graffiti filling the Chandler and celebrating Conlon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
She teaches flute at five universities in Iowa as an adjunct professor and performs in three orchestras.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
This year, the Saoradh national committee said it would be accompanied by one flute band and 500 participants and supporters.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
When a note was for violin or ’cello or flute she would write the name of the instrument to show.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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But it also endeavored to sound different from previous fantasy media, replacing twee flutes with composer Ramin Djawadi’s deep strings, rhythmic drumming and a theme song that sought to inspire its audience to battle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
As passengers sipped flutes of Champagne for hours on the triple-decker yacht, they played games of “Guess Who?” customized with the faces of AI legends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
There was a woodwind virtuoso, Pedro Eustache, making wild and beautiful sounds in an isolated booth with his arsenal of flutes — and out on the stage there was a real, live theremin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2025
"We served Lambrini in our little flutes but we only really had regulars turn up," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
Ophie carried a tray of champagne flutes very carefully, holding the silver tray with both hands as the Carutherses’ various cousins each took a flute, exclaiming over having champagne.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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“Classical Body,” which pairs Attic vases and flasks with a series of fluted Grecian gowns elevated above—super-model goddesses in pale gold—sets the aspirational yet unforgiving female physical ideal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Custom kitchens designed by Christopher Peacock are encased in wood and fluted glass cabinetry with 2-inch-thick Calacatta marble on the kitchen islands.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
The building’s fluted Corinthian columns are right at home in neoclassical Washington, but they aren’t a match with the rest of the White House, with its simpler, smooth columns and Ionic capitals.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025
The tiara has single, rose-cut and brilliant-cut diamonds and three fluted turquoise plumes set with diamond stems.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025
I skipped down through image after image about watermelon lights and turtle-green palms and shells fluted like bits of Greek architecture.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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International Paper customers choose from a fluting guide that extends from A-flute at the thickest to so-called microflutes like E and F.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Zegler, whose petite frame and childlike expressions give Maria an extra air of innocence, possesses a fluting soprano that is captivating and of a piece with her character’s naivete.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
Both children and adults are thought to have participated in finger fluting, and similarly, Bennett said that the Quesang prints should also be considered art.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2021
Mirianashvili opted for a standard drinking glass, the kind with fluting at the base and a wide band near the rim.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
A paleo-Indian innovation, this type of fluting exists only in the Americas.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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