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as in chorus
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Recent Examples of chant
Eric Adler
june 18,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
Some streets in Guadalajara were filled with drivers honking horns and fans chanting and waving Mexican flags.
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ABC News,
18 June 2026
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2026
The rhyme references a viral chant that has taken the internet by storm during the NBA Finals in which the Knicks are currently up 3-1 against the San Antonio Spurs.
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Marina Watts,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
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Verb
This week, social media was rife with videos of fans from Argentina in Kansas City for the match against Algeria in high spirits, chanting and waving flags in places like Jack Stack Barbecue.
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Eric Adler
june 18,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
Some streets in Guadalajara were filled with drivers honking horns and fans chanting and waving Mexican flags.
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ABC News,
18 June 2026
Noun
That chant reverberated in and out of the stadium over the next 90-plus minutes, political divisions set aside in the name of team spirit.
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Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2026
The rhyme references a viral chant that has taken the internet by storm during the NBA Finals in which the Knicks are currently up 3-1 against the San Antonio Spurs.
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Marina Watts,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chant
Verb
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The guests included many political VIPs, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and FBI Director Kash Patel, whose girlfriend Alexis Wilkins sang the national anthem.
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Follow the babe with the power into Jim Henson’s gloriously weird fantasy wonderland, where goblins sing, doors argue, and David Bowie’s Goblin King serves enough glam-rock charisma to power an entire kingdom.
Noun
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Fundstrat Global Advisors' Tom Lee has joined a growing chorus of Wall Street bulls forecasting the S & P 500 will end the year at 8,000.
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The chorus rises into a falsetto that can carry urgency, comfort, and humor before a listener understands a single word.
Noun
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Check out this 1997 live TV version of Paranoid Android, which veers from lullaby to apocalypse within the space of a few minutes.
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In April 2019, Williams shared a nostalgic video of the two serenading her daughter Rowan with a Cheetah Girls hit-turned-lullaby via FaceTime.
Noun
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Scrolling SoundCloud the other week, I was reminded of the Blackberry arguments, email apologies, and voicemail serenades of the Heartbreak Drake era.
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Elsewhere around the state, Patrick’s serenade of Kat was filmed at Seattle Center.
Noun
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Pre-show festivities kicked off the event with DJs playing hits from their homeland and classic party anthems from the United States.
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My kumbaya heart nevertheless jumped as the anthem continued.
Noun
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Latin polyphony and motets are being sung at the Offertory and during the distribution of Holy Communion.
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The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
Noun
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But, as with effectively a new group needing to gel, time was always going to be required for heroes to emerge and inspire terrace chants to replace or supplement the ditties to ‘Super Paul Mullin’, ‘White Pele’ (Elliot Lee) et al.
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All the more reason to keep this bouncy ditty on loop.
Noun
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Because in a country increasingly divided by social justice causes and their opposing viewpoints, fans increasingly care where their sports teams stand — sometimes to fans' glee or chagrin — depending on whether their opinions agree with that of their teams or leagues.
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To our glee, the air mattresses floated him high in the water.
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“Chant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chant. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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