often attributive

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David Ball, the co-founder of beloved English synth pop duo Soft Cell has died at 66. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025 Their 1981 debut album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, has been credited with changing the course of pop music, paving the way for several other successful English synth-pop duos like Pet Shop Boys, Eurythmics, Yaz (Yazoo), and Erasure, and helping define the sound of British music in the '80s. Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025 Tramel conversationally chants as pulsing synths flare and wild guitar blares. Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025 Daft Punk’s chunky electro fuzz has been replaced by Nine Inch Nails’ crunchier industrial synths. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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