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Recent Examples of chants
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
As the crowd chants largely out of sight, heavy automatic gunfire can be heard for 15 uninterrupted seconds.
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Marin Scott,
NBC news,
14 Jan. 2026
The Barmy Army chants restart as the England players partly walk over to applaud them.
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Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
21 Dec. 2025
On Saturday nights, when the Jewish Sabbath ends, Elia chants the zemirot, the traditional table hymns.
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Eli Sharabi,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
The entire group chants the name of the triumphant Elio and Clone Elio accepts the applause.
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Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
19 Aug. 2025
Verb
The ballroom at the Westin Perimeter North is packed with people sporadically breaking out in Rick Jackson chants from time to time.
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Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
As the crowd chants largely out of sight, heavy automatic gunfire can be heard for 15 uninterrupted seconds.
—
Marin Scott,
NBC news,
14 Jan. 2026
The Barmy Army chants restart as the England players partly walk over to applaud them.
—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
21 Dec. 2025
On Saturday nights, when the Jewish Sabbath ends, Elia chants the zemirot, the traditional table hymns.
—
Eli Sharabi,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
The entire group chants the name of the triumphant Elio and Clone Elio accepts the applause.
—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chants
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Chaka Khan sings her heart out at HarbourView Equity Partners’ signature concert series, Las’ Set, in Cannes, France on June 25.
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Confidence in God as ever-present Love sings through the ages in this hymn.
Verb
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The clip, filmed from a few feet away, shows the saxophone player continuing unfazed as the Dalmatian raises its snout and vocalizes in rhythm.
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As the sweetly melodic ballad tapers, a gentle beat kicks in and Carey vocalizes words of religious praise over a syncopated coda for the last two minutes, her five-octave voice punctuating her patented melismatic style.
Noun
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Paired with bubbly disco grooves and chant-along choruses, the band became gay icons overnight.
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Notorious Knicks villains such as Trae Young, Joel Embiid and CJ McCollum received similarly contentious choruses in recent postseasons.
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But if there is no clear-eyed accounting and address of the specific and systemic failings that led to so much loss last July 4, what happens the next time a flood roars through Texas Hill Country?
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Her presence is heralded not by the sounds of howls, roars or clanking chains, but by the shutting of the door to her study, the scrape of her chair as it is pulled towards her desk, and the clanking of her type-writer keys.
Noun
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Meanwhile, singing anthems at England national team matches is nothing new for English supporters.
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As the anthems played ahead of Curaçao’s first-ever World Cup match, Advocaat stood on the touchline and wiped away tears.
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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.
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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.
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When the Black Queen’s message arrives in the Riverlands, the king consort, lil’ Oscar Tully, and their new pal Roddy the Ruin are busy reveling, making up ballads dedicated to their own derring-do.
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Within the flashy dance numbers and power ballads, American musicals often hold up a mirror to society.
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.
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Clips from the Pitt-Stanford game spread rapidly on Bluesky, where multiple users captured separate free-throw serenades and posted them individually.
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“Chants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chants. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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