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Her voice is a glowing, childlike meep, and her tingling synths massage the inside of the listener’s skull. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025 The sputtering and crashing synth sounds are present, though, showing his vision of industrial rock arrived fully formed. Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2025 But when those synths get more fried, the glitchiness melts away, and that slurry singsong becomes a drunken, glorious shout. Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2025 After the singer introduces the track with a swirl of spacey synths and forlorn vocals, his lament quickly morphs into a different beast as a raucous live orchestra bursts in to crack things wide open. Jason Lamphier, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for synth

Word History

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 18 Dec. 2025.

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