bevy
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After its fire-bombing, Tokyo founded a bevy of symphony orchestras as a phenomenal experiment in mass antidepression.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
Viewers are treated to a bevy of footage, including Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh in 1971.
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026
The vocal music is written for an excellent quartet of singers who play a bevy of Sue-adjacent characters and observers—her ex-husband, Santa Claus, a newscaster, a trio of algorithms and Death, among others.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
The star appeared as an air stewardess, twirling her way through baggage reclaim while shrugging off a bevy of useless men – a surgeon, a priest, a magician, an astronaut.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026
He had a bevy of female admirers — but also a coterie of critics, who considered him a dandy and a playboy.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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