1
: a musical composition for six instruments or voices
2
: a group or set of six: such as
a
: the performers of a sextet
b
: a hockey team
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As a sextet, the youngsters have strong, lively chemistry that just about carries the movie through the longueurs and lousy melodrama, especially when the final act rolls round.
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Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
In Stamford, the BackCountry jazz sextet will perform live in between the dances as well as following the main performance.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
But the sextet of Brown, Ronnie DeVoe, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill remained a force in R&B, selling tens of millions of records over the last four decades.
—Travis Pinson, Dallas Morning News, 5 Feb. 2026
With their album, ARIRANG, set to release on March 20, the sextet – RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook – will hold a free comeback concert to promote the album in Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square on March 21.
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
In Stamford, the BackCountry jazz sextet will perform live in between the dances as well as following the main performance.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
But the sextet of Brown, Ronnie DeVoe, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill remained a force in R&B, selling tens of millions of records over the last four decades.
—Travis Pinson, Dallas Morning News, 5 Feb. 2026
With their album, ARIRANG, set to release on March 20, the sextet – RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook – will hold a free comeback concert to promote the album in Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square on March 21.
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Sextet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sextet. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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sextet
noun
sex·tet
sek-ˈstet 
1
: a musical composition for six instruments or voices
2
: a group or set of six
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