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Recent Examples of chant
Dominic Patten, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
In another recent game, fans chanted for freshman Flory Bidunga to play at the start.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 2025
Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2025
After a couple hints, Lamar did play it during the halftime show, prompting chants from the crowd.
—Time Staff, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Banging on drums and chanting to deliberately disturb the up-market neighborhood, the group covered the front area of the house in tape and trespassed onto the property to smear the garage door with fake bloody hands and flyers advocating for their cause.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
In another recent game, fans chanted for freshman Flory Bidunga to play at the start.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
The crowd that filled the Buena Park High gymnasium Thursday with deafening cheering and chants saw the storylines.
—Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2025
After a couple hints, Lamar did play it during the halftime show, prompting chants from the crowd.
—Time Staff, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chant
Verb
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With guitar in hand, Sandler sings and does baby talk in the way that audiences have come to expect from his work.—
Will DiGravio,
TIME,
21 Feb. 2025
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Chalamet grabs a guitar and harmonica and sings the hits as his young Dylan rises quickly in the New York music scene and finds chemistry on and off stage with Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro).—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The song enacts her process of finding power, as her voice moves from rapid-fire chants in the verses to soaring melodies in the chorus.—
Adam Bradley D’Angelo Lovell Williams Milton David Dixon III,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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The Democrats running against Adams and a growing chorus of others in New York are now calling on him to resign or for someone else to step in to do what the feds won’t.—
Harry Siegel,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The siblings made their appearance at Intuit after midnight (and after 3 a.m. ET), not to wake up sleepy viewers but to offer them a lullaby with a three-song acoustic set.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
31 Jan. 2025
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Sounds include white noise, lullabies, bird chirps and upbeat tunes.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Twain's creamy serenade Nestlé's Coffee Mate makes its Super Bowl debut with a collaboration featuring Shania Twain.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
3 Feb. 2025
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According to Magnus, 20, his dad’s friend John C. Reilly once treated a party to a sweet serenade.—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Donald Trump’s musings about annexations led to Canadians booing the U.S. anthem, which likely had something to do with all that fighting in the teams’ first meeting of the tournament.—
Alex Kirshner,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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The teams have a storied rivalry, regardless of anthems.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Her husband, my grandfather, was not only a composer who wrote liturgical music, motets, symphonies, and string quartets but also a beloved music teacher who believed that music was as crucial to the development of the mind as math.—
Stephanie H. Murray,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2024
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Repetition with fidelity led, with the aid of print, to longer organized forms such as the motet, a vocal music composition, and the conductus, a Latin song with a rhythmic structure.—
Lynn Whidden,
Scientific American,
26 July 2024
Noun
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As Taylor Swift looked on from the field, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end celebrated his team winning the AFC Championship following a tight battle with their frequent rivals, the Buffalo Bills, with a little ditty.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
27 Jan. 2025
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In between scenes, a podcast plays – a nice extra ditty in the headphones as the audience walks from one location to the next.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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At the same time, Kelce has used his NFL platform as a launching pad into even wider mainstream pop culture exposure.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC News,
27 Feb. 2025
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What began as an Instagram community during the pandemic has evolved into a vibrant collection of more than 200 original works spanning digital, mural, abstract, and pop culture art — each inspired by Whataburger's iconic orange-and-white striped aesthetic.—
Claudia Alarcón,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Chant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chant. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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