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Recent Examples of quintet
The iconic quintet that recorded the 1977 blockbuster Rumours remained intact for over a decade, but eventually there was more drama, including Buckingham’s contentious removal from the band in 2018.
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Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2025
The presentation will feature a choir, string quintet and pipe organ with a pancake breakfast between services.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 13 Dec. 2024
In his perpetual search for a winning quintet, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has continued to spin the lineup wheel for a third consecutive season, looking for a starting group with long-term sustainability amid the ongoing Jimmy Butler saga.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2025
The quintet will be joined by the Belgium Grand Prix, which will host its first sprint race since 2023.
—Dan Cancian, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2025
The presentation will feature a choir, string quintet and pipe organ with a pancake breakfast between services.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 13 Dec. 2024
In his perpetual search for a winning quintet, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has continued to spin the lineup wheel for a third consecutive season, looking for a starting group with long-term sustainability amid the ongoing Jimmy Butler saga.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2025
The quintet will be joined by the Belgium Grand Prix, which will host its first sprint race since 2023.
—Dan Cancian, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quintet
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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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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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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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On Wednesday, a trio of California lawmakers sought to rectify that issue by introducing two bills intended to amplify the governor’s proposal.—
Katie Kilkenny,
The Hollywood Reporter,
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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That frame, blues duo Larkin Poe launched its album Bloom at No. 1.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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While keeping their relationship a secret for professional reasons, an unexpected promotion unravels their fraught romance, fueling a violent competition between the duo.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 Feb. 2025
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The project marks just the 19th K-pop album to top the chart, as well as the octet’s sixth title to reach the chart’s summit.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
16 Jan. 2025
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Ever since her husband died from a bee sting, the matriarch has smoothly guided her octet of rapscallions through proposals, scandals, and balloon disasters.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
14 June 2024
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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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“Quintet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quintet. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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