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as in ballad
a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment
loved that jingle in the commercial for the fast-food place
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Recent Examples of jingle
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
4 June 2026
Well, in honor of teaming up with Lizzo to reimagine and bring back the iconic Baby Back Ribs jingle, Chili’s has also updated the fan-favorite menu item for modern times.
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Molly Burford,
Southern Living,
27 May 2026
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
31 Dec. 2025
The next signs of the nation’s political divide might be jingling in your pocket next year.
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Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
12 Dec. 2025
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Noun
White wrote jingles for commercials (a gig that informed his future compositions as much as Lou Reed’s dabbling in pop songwriting at Pickwick Records did his).
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
4 June 2026
Well, in honor of teaming up with Lizzo to reimagine and bring back the iconic Baby Back Ribs jingle, Chili’s has also updated the fan-favorite menu item for modern times.
—
Molly Burford,
Southern Living,
27 May 2026
Verb
Netflix and Amazon jingled all the way to some big audiences on Christmas Day, thanks to the NFL.
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Katie Campione,
Deadline,
31 Dec. 2025
The next signs of the nation’s political divide might be jingling in your pocket next year.
—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
12 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jingle
Noun
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Pygmy Rattlesnakes are small and colorful, around 15 to 20 inches in length, with a vertical pupil, thin tail, and tiny rattle.
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Elsewhere in the snippet of the music video, Latto could be seen walking around a white crib and viewing a scrapbook featuring a page with a rattle and dummy and a positive ClearBlue pregnancy test placed on top.
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When the Black Queen’s message arrives in the Riverlands, the king consort, lil’ Oscar Tully, and their new pal Roddy the Ruin are busy reveling, making up ballads dedicated to their own derring-do.
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Within the flashy dance numbers and power ballads, American musicals often hold up a mirror to society.
Verb
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There is the sound of laughter, clinking wine glasses, and lively conversations as everyone waits for the mystery wine tasting of the evening.
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Avtan often won’t tell Paz anything about the source or meaning of her many samples, which can take the form of fragmented dialogue and what sounds like clinking kitchenware.
Noun
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No clatter of boots and ankles.
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Kids don pinafores, bonnets, and straw hats to study in the one-room schoolhouse, then learn to drive a team of horses or mules and clatter along in a pony cart.
Noun
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So to reel it in, Pillsbury and his band threw on a sitar — which made the cut on a few songs — and a flute solo.
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Listen to the Obama playlists Barack Obama is known for releasing his songs of the summer playlist each year, and his end-of-year favorites in books, movies and music.
Verb
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There’s often a pianist tinkling away in the corner of the airy elegant room in the afternoon.
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The bell tinkled, but this time the shelves were empty.
Noun
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The ceremony included Colombia's national anthem but also the rebel hymn of the Border Commandos -- the lyrics of which make no mention of the group's crimes.
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For centuries, spiritual hymns have kept hope alive, even more so for the enslaved.
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Cheers ring out when survivors are rescued – moments of relief, even joy, and an emotional release from the grief and tension that feel palpable in the streets.
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For a quick refresher, Pavlov found that if dogs were repeatedly given food while a bell rang, the dogs eventually began salivating at the mere sound of the bell because their brains associated the sound with food.
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“Jingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jingle. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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