phrases

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“Rollins hates clichés and signature phrases — ‘licks’ — and refuses to play them,” critic Stanley Crouch wrote in the New Yorker in 2005.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Dixon's fast-paced rhymes helped the songs stand out on the radio, and she became known for phrases such as "We're coming back strong", "M-I-S-T-double-E-Q", "Away we go" and "Enter!"

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Children often learn the order of the planets in our Solar System using quirky memory phrases like "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos."

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

Advertisers will not have full control over the final copy or imagery, but they can use a tool called AI Brief to emphasize or remove certain phrases.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The result is that each raga is a collection of melodic scales, phrases, motifs, and ornaments, that may be used together to construct music in that raga.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones