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Recent Examples of sextet
No song was left unturned by this cheerful and nearly perfect sextet.
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Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 30 Oct. 2024
And that quartet of power right-handers could still become a sextet, with Topa close to returning from a season-long knee injury and Varland on call for a second straight September shift to relief.
—Aaron Gleeman, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
The King's Singers The long-running English vocal sextet, founded in the 1960s by choral scholars of King's College, Cambridge, bring their holiday program to the Bradley Symphony Center, 212 W. Wisconsin Ave.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
The sextet’s energy was palpable inside the Barclays from beginning to end, as the excited crowd with arms waving saw Dickinson roam the stage and twirl the mike stand; the intensity in his wicked singing had not diminished over the decades.
—David Chiu, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 30 Oct. 2024
And that quartet of power right-handers could still become a sextet, with Topa close to returning from a season-long knee injury and Varland on call for a second straight September shift to relief.
—Aaron Gleeman, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
The King's Singers The long-running English vocal sextet, founded in the 1960s by choral scholars of King's College, Cambridge, bring their holiday program to the Bradley Symphony Center, 212 W. Wisconsin Ave.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
The sextet’s energy was palpable inside the Barclays from beginning to end, as the excited crowd with arms waving saw Dickinson roam the stage and twirl the mike stand; the intensity in his wicked singing had not diminished over the decades.
—David Chiu, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sextet
Noun
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That quartet started the season as arguably the top four attacking options in the squad.—
Amy Lawrence,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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An arrestingly versatile quartet of musicians led by percussionist Tlale Makhene (joined by Nathan Koci on accordion and banjo, Marika Hughes on cello and Thandi Ntuli on piano) seems to hold the whole world of music in their hands.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 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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And while the defense welcomed back a trio of defenders in senior Sophie Halus and juniors Neve O’Ferrall (Glenelg Country) and Kennedy Major (Gerstell), the unit also had to find a new goalkeeper to succeed four-year starter Emily Sterling.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
15 Feb. 2025
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The trio can be seen sitting together on an airplane as Gabrys and Hall both pet Frankie.—
Natalia Senanayake,
People.com,
15 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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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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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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“Sextet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sextet. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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