genre
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The genre or at least the loudest instrument shifts every couple hundred feet until we reach the fireworks.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
I don’t really feel like we fall into these genre scenes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The genre dispute was represented by two rival record companies that defined 1990s hip-hop: Knight's Death Row Records and Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
“It’s the first time that I’m properly going into the genre and embracing it and instigating that work,” Anderson says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"I'm beginning to think you shouldn't have started reading comics with a book that completely deconstructs the last fifty years of the genre," he said.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
Yet the writer-director has worked in other genres and his latest finds him trying his hand at a whodunit within the trappings of a historical drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
I have certain genres that I always check out: I’m particularly into Jamaican gospel now, which is kind of primitive and not reggae, very illuminated, great singers.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
I did my research by listening to Luis Miguel, José José and singers and genres that I wasn’t used to listening to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
But as she employed them, they became perennial sources for multiple emerging genres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
In the U.S., unique genres of music that are part of our cultural fabric have developed over the centuries.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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