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Recent Examples of octet
The octet must race around to bash open crates, carry bombs back to their homebase and launch them at Bowser before time runs out.
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
In the end, Houston, Alabama, Texas A&M, Oregon, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Creighton and San Diego State signed on to be the Players Era’s inaugural octet.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2024
In July, the octet dropped ATE, earning its fifth consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2024
But the English-language track does act as an introduction to the octet's latest artistic foray.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
In the end, Houston, Alabama, Texas A&M, Oregon, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Creighton and San Diego State signed on to be the Players Era’s inaugural octet.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2024
In July, the octet dropped ATE, earning its fifth consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2024
But the English-language track does act as an introduction to the octet's latest artistic foray.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for octet
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Few musical rites of passage are as exhilarating as the big comeback album, and Amor Elefante’s Amigas finds the quartet, now with new member Lucila Pivetta on bass, beaming with joy at the chance of reconnecting.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
28 Feb. 2025
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Seeing Nirvana fill a quartet of rungs is not unusual.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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These people found one another at the civil rights movement’s apogee, and their septet — Black and white, men and women — was a union that advertised integration’s frictionless possibility.—
Wesley Morris,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Building on her long-running septet, the New York City flutist and composer started setting poetry to music.—
Andrew Gilbert,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
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Charlie Gurke, a baritone saxophone specialist who also plays tenor and alto, is the youngest member of the sextet and latest to join.—
Andrew Gilbert,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, the sextet of localized blazes—the Palisades fire, the Eaton fire, the Hurst fire, the Sunset fire, the Lidia fire, and the Kenneth fire—blurred in the public mind and in the sprawl of destruction into one great undifferentiated inferno.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
10 Jan. 2025
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On Saturday, March 1, Dana Salzman and her quintet perform funky originals.—
Anne Gelhaus,
The Mercury News,
16 Feb. 2025
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British jazz quintet and 2023 Mercury Prize recipients, Ezra Collective, will make their Brits debut with four nominations in the same categories.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
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That includes Amazon and a trio of other Club names: Microsoft, Meta Platforms , and Alphabet .—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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Nirvana, the compilation, also finds a home on a trio of rankings, though its performance does not match Nevermind.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Will the duo of hoisin sauce and tomatillo salsa make the condiment combo hall of fame, alongside Buffalo sauce and sriracha mayo?—
Kendra Vaculin,
Bon Appétit,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Panthers’ checking pair is a go One pairing up front that worked well, unsurprisingly, was the Florida Panthers duo of Anton Lundell and Eetu Luostarinen.—
Arpon Basu,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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But the troupe—a ragtag team which also includes castmates Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts, plus the writer-musician Felix Hagan—carried on.—
Juan A. Ramírez,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
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Sought-after by prominent dance companies in the United States and abroad, Tanowitz continues to head her twenty-five-year-old troupe, Pam Tanowitz Dance.—
Guillermo Perez,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2025
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The co-creators say Mullen, similar to the rest of the ensemble, was not based on any one political figure.—
Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Feb. 2025
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The winners for the stunt ensemble performances in the film and TV categories will also be revealed during the pre-show.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Octet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/octet. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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