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Thia and her fellow synths were dispatched to the planet by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, a corrupt conglomerate that showed up as an antagonistic force in the original 1979 movie Alien. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Dec. 2025 His palette is light, smudgy guitar textures and warm synths; his message, more gestural than discursive, is love and lust. Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025 But working with Stockholm Drain Gang veteran Bladee on the remix turns the song into a hyper-pop boss fight, with frenetic and bleating synths piling on the duo’s vocals. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025 Those old sounds were mixed with more contemporary synths, which helped capture Dessner’s score that, like the film, is often devastating, at times almost whimsical, but always beautiful. Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 28 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for synth

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First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of synth was in 1976

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“Synth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synth. Accessed 15 Dec. 2025.

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