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Recent Examples of melody
Its rhythm, melody, and structure provide a kind of sequential framework, a timeline.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
The sound of the wind can be heard in the background along with a light melody of jazz music being played nearby.
—Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Frequently, an ascending complex melody will level out into a single, insistent note; tempos accelerate and then accelerate again; her singers give up on words to wail like Klaxons.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
What caught my ear was that almost every song was extremely (and expectedly) laidback—the honeyed melodies of Z-Ro, the syrupy flows of Big Pokey—except for the twerk music of the late BeatKing.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2025
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Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
The sound of the wind can be heard in the background along with a light melody of jazz music being played nearby.
—Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Frequently, an ascending complex melody will level out into a single, insistent note; tempos accelerate and then accelerate again; her singers give up on words to wail like Klaxons.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
What caught my ear was that almost every song was extremely (and expectedly) laidback—the honeyed melodies of Z-Ro, the syrupy flows of Big Pokey—except for the twerk music of the late BeatKing.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melody
Noun
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Seconds later, Siwa was back to performing a song about her haters, wearing a homemade jersey bedazzled with her own name.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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The song combines love at first sight, drugs, and death.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Channeling the Queen of Pop, Clarkson, 43, mimics the character’s seductive delivery before letting her signature belt soar on the tune’s top notes.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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And, while the deal has yet to be inked, Beijing may have made some true concessions on the fate of the social media app TikTok, after changing its tune on staunch opposition to a US law requiring the app’s Chinese owner ByteDance to sell its US business.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Melody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melody. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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