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genre

noun as in type

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In recent years, “lo-fi chill” and other forms of “focus music” have become so popular that there are now multiple YouTube channels devoted to the genre.

Throughout the process, Thio worked with lo-fi producers to curate bass lines, drum lines, and background ambience that exemplify the genre and sound good.

Stell is a rapidly rising artist in the electronic and dance scene, though his songs don’t fit neatly in the genre.

Studios with a very focused portfolio around a specific genre — Viker’s core focus is social casino-type games — may benefit from advertisers who shift to more broad-based, contextual targeting, he added.

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The genre-bender is well-cast and suspenseful, and the cliffhanger ending suggests there’s more to come.

People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.

A lot of the culture around movies in the sci-fi/fantasy genre is about deconstructing them ad nauseam.

I came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre].

You had a great line in your piece on Geoffrey Beene about the “genre” of evening wear.

Phonetic, made-up lyrics are another venerable tradition of folk music, and “pa-rum-pa-pa-pum” is iconic of the genre.

Mrs. Woodbury paints in oils and water-colors; the latter are genre scenes, and among them are several Dutch subjects.

They live in Stockholm, where she paints portraits and genre subjects.

Occasionally this artist has painted genre subjects, but her real success has not been in this direction.

Unfortunately, the art of genre painting did not exist in those days, and that of engraving was in its infancy.

Tout le monde sait que l'Allemagne possede en ce genre des trsors qui ont t jusqu'ici comme enfouis pour la France.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to genre, such as: brand, category, character, fashion, kind, and style.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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