brass
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The package included a one-pound brass ticket engraved with the owner’s name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
City fans' displeasure towards Uefa goes back even further, there being a litany of disputes with Europe's top brass.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Merchants followed the trade winds south from Oman and elsewhere in the Arab Peninsula for hundreds of years, bringing to the African coast everything from silks and porcelain to brass and paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Kao told the FBI that the lawmakers, lobbyists and Navatek brass understood these donations were bribes and that the payments were essential to the entire scheme.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
He played brass instruments: trumpet, trombone, and tuba, as well as the flute.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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Their sound has a lovely finish: softly molded winds, round-toned brasses, strings that never turn strident.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
It relies not on computers but on hand-played, largely acoustic instruments: guitars, accordions, brasses, reeds.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
The orchestra, from the pointed brasses to the curling woodwinds, found its way to unanimity of utterance.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
"Several thousand brasses and other artefacts - collectively known as the 'Benin Bronzes' - were taken by the British, and subsequently sold off in London to recoup the costs of the military mission."
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
The harness was polished and the horse brasses glittered like gold.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Musical Instruments - Introductory
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