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as in chorus
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Recent Examples of chant
Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
The final Senate vote unfolded as demonstrators chanted loudly in the galleries and hallways.
—Arkansas Online, 8 May 2026
Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026
The first time Carrick’s chant is sung inside the ground comes just as the game goes into first-half stoppage time.
—Chris McKenna, New York Times, 4 May 2026
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Verb
The performers were wearing drapes over their heads and chanting to drone music while smoking a hookah, and there were flowers everywhere.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
The final Senate vote unfolded as demonstrators chanted loudly in the galleries and hallways.
—Arkansas Online, 8 May 2026
Noun
The chant is meant to echo beyond these walls and rattle in the ears of WNBA executive leadership, which, at that moment, had been locked in contentious negotiations with the union that represents the players over a new collective bargaining agreement.
—Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026
The first time Carrick’s chant is sung inside the ground comes just as the game goes into first-half stoppage time.
—Chris McKenna, New York Times, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chant
Verb
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Recorded throughout the book tour for On Morrison—Serpell’s electrifying, critical examination of Morrison’s writing—each episode welcomes listeners into rooms full of readers and discussions of how Morrison made her words sing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Where the magic happens, where communities come together in a historic venue to sing and celebrate and commiserate.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
Noun
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Those are the choruses of some of the most popular songs by the Cocteau Twins, a band that seemed to come from out of nowhere with its own musical language, and its own deeply original way of using the English language.—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
12 May 2026
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The clouds are a chorus behind them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 May 2026
Noun
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Say, for instance, a fluffy Sasquatch, or a crooner of a moon in pajamas singing an old-timey lullaby to all the little ones seated cross-legged on the floor.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
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By creating a full-circle moment that directly connects his early open-mic days to his present-day perspective, listeners are treated to a soft rocking lullaby narrated by an artist revisiting old memories with new weight.—
Chris Barilla,
PEOPLE,
14 May 2026
Noun
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Scrolling SoundCloud the other week, I was reminded of the Blackberry arguments, email apologies, and voicemail serenades of the Heartbreak Drake era.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
14 May 2026
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Elsewhere around the state, Patrick’s serenade of Kat was filmed at Seattle Center.—
Samantha Agate,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The singer, songwriter and actress also performed the anthem before the 2015 and 2024 races.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 May 2026
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Iranian officials have also asked for their flag and anthem to be respected, and for security guarantees at airports, hotels and stadiums.—
Khaled Wassef,
CBS News,
13 May 2026
Noun
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Latin polyphony and motets are being sung at the Offertory and during the distribution of Holy Communion.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 June 2025
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The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But, as with effectively a new group needing to gel, time was always going to be required for heroes to emerge and inspire terrace chants to replace or supplement the ditties to ‘Super Paul Mullin’, ‘White Pele’ (Elliot Lee) et al.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
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All the more reason to keep this bouncy ditty on loop.—
Adelle Platon,
VIBE.com,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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There’s an element of sadistic, John Simonesque glee to his attacks on the personal appearances of actors.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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Managers attacking journalists usually ends one way, and, predictably, Bild spent the rest of the weekend reporting with glee on Frankfurt’s defeat and poor form.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
3 May 2026
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“Chant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chant. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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