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as in hymn
a religious song
practiced a chorale to perform in church
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Recent Examples of chorale
The Bay Area brims with scores of chorales of every variety, from Cantare con Vivo to WomenSing, Schola Cantorum and more.
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Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
But to have the chorale perform a multimedia piece is new for them and a company their size.
—James Russell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
The blend of voices and the unified commitment is one of the hallmarks of the chorale.
—Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
But rather than juice the story with agitated music, Ruo overlays it with reverent chorales.
—An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
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Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
But to have the chorale perform a multimedia piece is new for them and a company their size.
—James Russell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
The blend of voices and the unified commitment is one of the hallmarks of the chorale.
—Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
But rather than juice the story with agitated music, Ruo overlays it with reverent chorales.
—An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chorale
Noun
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Frost is the president of the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, giving recitals and leading hymn concerts throughout the country.—
Del Mar Times,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2025
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The hymn originated as a poem written by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900, with its verses paired with music composed by Johnson’s brother, John Rosamond Johnson.—
Gail Mitchell,
Billboard,
9 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Shot in quivering close-ups, this coming-of-age film follows a reticent teenager from a religious household, and her all-girl choir’s trip to a convent.—
Beatrice Loayza,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Born in Mississippi to sharecropper parents and raised in Chicago, Butler brought his church choir vocals to an early iteration of the Impressions after meeting Curtis Mayfield in the mid-1950s.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
21 Feb. 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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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
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The Lady Olive certainly sank: All of its crew members escaped in lifeboats, singing psalms to stave off hypothermia, and were saved after 36 hours at sea.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Feb. 2025
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He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.—
Joyce Orlando,
The Tennessean,
15 Mar. 2024
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“Chorale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chorale. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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