as in song
a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment
a haunting ballad about lost love and loneliness
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Recent Examples of ballad
Within hours of El Mencho’s death there were already ballads, known as narcocorridos, written about his killing.
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CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
Within hours of El Mencho's death there were already ballads, known as narcocorridos, written about his killing.
—CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
On her new single—a piano ballad of dubious sincerity—Canadian DJ and songwriter Brat Star invokes Paltrow’s greatest role as one-third of a holy trinity of disaffection.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 2 Mar. 2026
Within hours of El Mencho's death there were already ballads, known as narcocorridos, written about his killing.
—ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
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CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
Within hours of El Mencho's death there were already ballads, known as narcocorridos, written about his killing.
—CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
On her new single—a piano ballad of dubious sincerity—Canadian DJ and songwriter Brat Star invokes Paltrow’s greatest role as one-third of a holy trinity of disaffection.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 2 Mar. 2026
Within hours of El Mencho's death there were already ballads, known as narcocorridos, written about his killing.
—ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ballad
Noun
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The second half of the show opened with Reznor and Ross joined by Boys Noize on the remote stage for the equivalent of live remixes of Nine Inch Nails songs.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
12 Mar. 2026
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In putting the numbers togeher, Moore and the team didn’t want to just recreate the song from the films, but celebrate those numbers as a whole, playing into how each of the films have resonated with audiences around the world.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The first is rewriting public-domain hymns with community members to sing at protests.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
11 Mar. 2026
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Instead, a narrator gives a somewhat notion of what’s what in the language of the audience, as is Akhnaten’s great aria, a hymn to Aten (god of the sun).—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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As the crowd screamed every lyric back to them, Raya-García leaned down from the stage to sign autographs for fans losing their minds in the front row.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2026
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The lyrics seem to be very much from your imagination.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The International Paralympic Committee is looking into an apparent protest by two German athletes while on the podium when the Russian anthem was played at the Winter Paralympics.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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At the 2022 men’s World Cup, played in Qatar, the Iranian team did not sing the anthem before a game against England and did not celebrate the two goals scored in a 6-2 loss.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The fever dream continued with Howard wailing on guitar and vocals, the production morphing into a beautiful stew of blues rock and given an exclamation point – and a standing ovation – with Copeland spinning out of the shadows.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
16 Mar. 2026
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Her powerhouse vocals go far beyond notes on the page.—
Heide Janssen,
Oc Register,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Artists help parents identify their childrens' personality traits and habits to create a unique lullaby.—
Madeline Montgomery,
CBS News,
4 Mar. 2026
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But curated with rest in mind, this viewing ritual repurposes Hollywood’s highest stage as an on-demand lullaby of entertainment legacy.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Ballad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ballad. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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