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chanteys

noun

variants or chanties or shanties

plural of chantey

as in ballads

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But in keeping with its protagonist’s difficulty staring at his feelings head-on, The Vampire Lestat—and the marketing that preceded its premiere—doesn’t start with ballads or sensual odes to far-reaching love.

— Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026
As the group grew in fame and notoriety, their sound evolved, mixing heavy metal with more emotional, dynamic ballads.

— Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of ballads

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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
The songs, by Randy Newman, are simple but charming little ditties, particularly the ensemble numbers where this makeshift band of misfits express their devotion to one another.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026

Definition of ditties

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Paired with bubbly disco grooves and chant-along choruses, the band became gay icons overnight.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Notorious Knicks villains such as Trae Young, Joel Embiid and CJ McCollum received similarly contentious choruses in recent postseasons.

— Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 10 June 2026

Definition of choruses

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The machine’s repertoire included answers to 12 riddles, passages from books, and laughing, crying and kissing sounds, as well as arias sung in both male and female voices—all feats that Edison’s phonograph would one day be able to accomplish by recording and playing back the human voice.

— Ron Cowen, Scientific American, 3 June 2026
Notable coloratura arias Coloratura arias are found in the works of Mozart, George Frideric Handel, and many other classical composers.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026

Definition of arias

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Hip-hop is their common language, but Robinson is also fluent in blues and spirituals while Quijada speaks forcefully through Mexican folk rhythms.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
Families gathered, spirituals filled the streets, and emancipation—long delayed—became real at last.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 16 June 2026

Definition of spirituals

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When Branch wiped her Instagram profile and began posting cryptic photos using lyrics from The Spirit Room, everyone freaked out.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2026
In the early days of the war, Union troops from Boston had borrowed the familiar melody of a religious camp meeting song and added new lyrics lionizing John Brown, the leader of the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).

— Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026

Definition of lyrics

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Produced again by the classic-rocker whisperer Andrew Watt (Paul McCartney, Elton John, Pearl Jam), the band delivers a clutch of strong songs.

— Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
But we writers of historical fiction should never forget, in our focus on the vast sweep of time and change, that the symphony itself is composed of lots of little songs.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

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