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Sarcastic fury on his past albums used to be paired with a sense of playful discovery, like the new wave synths mixed with punishing bass on All My Heroes Are Cornballs or the SP-404-shredding beats that powered his Danny Brown collaboration Scaring The Hoes. Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 29 May 2026 The record has always been looked at as the black sheep of the two albums, the more experimental foray that embraced the coldness of synths on a stylistic side quest. Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 26 May 2026 The Memorymoog is legendary for being an absolutely massive-sounding synth and being incredibly unreliable. Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 26 May 2026 Was that a synth or a sousaphone? Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026 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 2 Jun. 2026.

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