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She looked so at ease, and she was, cracking jokes with the moms in her native language and letting the kids strum on her guitar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

At the 1969 Montreal recording of “Give Peace a Chance,” only two acoustic guitars strum along.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Worries escalated as this new cohort of generative AI tools threatened the livelihoods of people who write, draw, strum or code for a living.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

They strum and sing together in her kitchen and in the park, and she offers frank notes on his songs, the shared experience of making music allowing them to somehow traverse oceans and continents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2023

I shake my cleats off my hands and strum the front console with my sock-covered fingers.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

“I did that yesterday, when I was a kid,” he sings over hectic guitar strums, and his trilling digital falsetto, warped to maximize irritation, makes clear that those days are far behind him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

But here at least you could detect a distinct L.A. presence in Emily Green’s John Frusciante-coded strums and in the doomed-heartthrob proclamations that made Winter sound a little like Jim Morrison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025

“KPop Demon Hunters” strums some the same chords in a more innocent key, swapping in a K-pop trio for Delta blues masters.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

He strums the guitar and softly delivers the lines:

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2024

He leans back in his chair and strums.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Monday strummed on a guitar and also went to a shopping mall destroyed by a Russian strike as he visited Kyiv to show his country's support for Ukraine.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

She persuaded me to play a cajón for the first time as she strummed her guitar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

“Stay on That” is one of the slinkier numbers on the album, with rapidly strummed guitars and a wah-wah squawk that recalls Isaac Hayes’s “Theme From Shaft.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

Instead, a good 50% of the tracks retreat to safer ground - slowly strummed songs of devotion, packed with valentine card sentiments.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

Each plantation hath thus strummed and beat out its own peculiar suites, its own lively airs, its customs negotiated through use.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

“It has none of those elements one sees so often: festivals of wrought iron, little Juliet balconies, guitars strumming in every corner,” he recalled in his 1998 interview.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

It shows relatives outside a cabin, including her grandfather—a movie-star-handsome man strumming a guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

I groaned as strumming Spanish guitars played underneath a cheerful introduction welcoming me to the “Jewel of the Missions” — a slogan that boosters coined decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

As they shot the breeze, McCartney started strumming.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

And even though he bought a used acoustic guitar last year, it’s more for decoration and to act cool while strumming a chord than anything else.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan