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resonance

[rez-uh-nuhns] / ˈrɛz ə nəns /
NOUN
reverberation
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But the tagline enjoyed particular resonance this year, as the festival returned to its longtime home, the Castro Theatre.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

Their reunion has as much to teach both of them as it does the audience, bringing this story a strikingly beautiful new resonance that it could only incur with time.

From Salon • May 1, 2026

While each of these shows engages with its source material differently, all enable theatergoers to both explore what made them classics and discover their contemporary resonance.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

They praised the precision and sophistication of the installation, saying it "addresses complex historical issues with strong contemporary resonance, and its use of a clinical, minimalist display that conveys both irony and seriousness".

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

The resulting jangling, sparklingly dissonant sound, which is brittle, full of edgy attack and a kind of out-of-tune resonance, would have been - literally - unimaginable, even terrifying to audiences of the day.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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