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Recent Examples of anthem That’s the title of a revolutionary song eulogizing Mao, which became the popular anthem of the Cultural Revolution. Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 12 May 2025 Over his career, Kaskade has collaborated with several iconic artists such as Alicia Keys, Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani, and Meghan Trainor to produce dance-pop anthems. Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 9 May 2025 But imagine the uproar if Fogler wasn’t given a campy song to sing in his laboratory or Wilson wasn’t given a pandering female empowerment anthem to croon in a castle. Courtney Howard, Variety, 8 May 2025 This week’s crop of new music finds Luke Combs and Bailey Zimmerman pairing up on a hard-charging anthem about grit and determination. Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for anthem
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Noun
  • The pilgrims sing sacred hymns, while the journalists try to corner cardinals for clues about their papal preferences.
    Daniel Burke, NPR, 6 May 2025
  • With only two episodes left before the Gemstones sing their final hedonistic hymn on the May 4 series finale, Baltz zoomed in from the North Carolina shoot of an upcoming Bobby Farrelly movie to talk about his alter ego’s colorful arc.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The funeral of Pope Francis began with a short musical chant and psalm spoken in Latin after an open Book of the Gospels had been placed on top of Pope Francis’ closed coffin carried by pallbearers from inside St. Peter’s and placed on a red carpet on the edge of the church steps.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Fronted by the Swiss Guard, cardinals and other church leaders led the slow procession into the sunlit esplanade as a male choir chanted psalms and prayers in Latin and the great bells of the basilica tolled.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Anthem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anthem. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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