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The guitar great’s solo catalog collected 586,000 streams and nearly 800 songs sold over that period, gains of 2,940% and 5,140%, respectively.—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025 Jeremy Allen White has spoken about his initial hesitation to take the role given his lack of experience singing and playing guitar.—Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025 Reid had come to Music City like so many guitar-picking hopefuls.—Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025 White was tasked with learning to play guitar and sing like Springsteen in a period of just seven months.—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for guitar
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Etymology
French guitare, from Spanish guitarra, from Arabic qītār, from Greek kithara cithara
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