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genre

[zhahn-ruh, zhahn-ruh] / ˈʒɑn rə, ˈʒɑ̃ rə /


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He holds monthly strategy sessions with other top laundromat content creators, and said the genre is undergoing a reboot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Created by Robert and Michelle King, veterans of the legal drama genre with shows like “The Good Wife” and its spinoff “The Good Fight,” the Silicon Valley-set courtroom drama is interested in David vs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

From the greatest genre series to less obvious links, like the preposterous shenanigans at Paddy’s Pub, Serling left his mark on screens large and small, and on American audiences.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

Starr acknowledged it's a male-dominated field and would like female artists to have more "space in the genre" and be "allowed the same privileges".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Concepts: As a genre, we believe opera to be a classical form, complicated, and with a long tradition and heritage rooted in the European classical tradition.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Sloan’s stylistic range reflects a music industry in which the borders between genres have never been more porous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

More than other literary genres, the short story is produced to meet a ready market—or it once was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The creator of “The Twilight Zone” used the genres of supernatural fantasy and science fiction to address social issues that other programs avoided.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"Afrobeats just keeps evolving, it keeps growing and it just keeps getting better... I want it to be one of the top genres in the world."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

In America, all of the music we currently know today is derived from the musical genres that came before us.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin


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