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Recent Examples of cantor
In 1933, Berg ran what amounted to a Very Special Episode: a full Seder, sung by a real cantor, which Pepsodent, her sponsor, agreed to air without ads.
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Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Margarita shares a special bond with her father, Avi - a doting Israeli who is a cantor at their local synagogue - ever since her mother, Marsha, abandoned the family.
—Troy McMullen, ABC News, 8 June 2025
The piece invokes the singing style of a synagogue’s cantor, who often sings many notes over a single syllable.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Jason Schwartzman stars as a recent widower, unable to fulfill his duties as a cantor at an upstate New York synagogue.
—Jason Bailey, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Margarita shares a special bond with her father, Avi - a doting Israeli who is a cantor at their local synagogue - ever since her mother, Marsha, abandoned the family.
—Troy McMullen, ABC News, 8 June 2025
The piece invokes the singing style of a synagogue’s cantor, who often sings many notes over a single syllable.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Jason Schwartzman stars as a recent widower, unable to fulfill his duties as a cantor at an upstate New York synagogue.
—Jason Bailey, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cantor
Noun
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Already Guerrero seems to be able to convey of-the-moment phrasings and character directions with a few emphatic motions—a roller-coaster swoop here, a waggle of the fingers there—and get an immediate response from the choristers.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
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The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Ever since, Swifties and bakers alike have embraced the singer's sourdough skills.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Charismatic Qatari singer and composer Dana Al Meer, already a veteran of the 2022 men’s soccer world World Cup and 2023 Asian Cup opening ceremonies, came in third.—
Camilla Wright,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The main chanter was Obsidian Tiburon, a Taino representative of the American Indian Movement who came down from Orlando to attend the protest.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
29 Mar. 2025
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On a separate platform to the right of the action, three male chanters sit in a neat row, next to men playing the shamisen, a stringed instrument with a raw and piercing tone which is often used in vocal accompaniment.—
Jennifer Homans,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Cherdack Sherman, a professional vocalist, pianist and guitarist, is a graduate of Miami Killian High School.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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Sabrina Carpenter is the only guest vocalist on the album, appearing on the title track.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
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Musicians including psych rocker Damon Krukowski and power pop songster Ted Leo have taken to X to blast out their support.—
Caitlin Harrington,
WIRED,
6 Oct. 2023
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Nevertheless, the songster’s rise to stardom is mystifying.—
Quartz,
Quartz,
25 Nov. 2022
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“Cantor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantor. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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