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Recent Examples of chants
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
Verb
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
Verb
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His older daughter, Dahlia, sings one of the songs from the musical.—
Mo Rocca,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
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The multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter, who rocks an early era Maxwell ‘fro, plays drums, plucks bass, and sings about the ups and downs of love and consumerism on his new album, LK99.—
Elise Brisco,
Rolling Stone,
22 May 2026
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.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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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.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Unlike her first album, the compositions rarely built toward pop choruses or easy, identifiable emotion.—
Sam Sodomsky,
Pitchfork,
24 May 2026
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But there are no verses, and those choruses are surrounded by a series of instrumental passages with intricate guitar solos and tempo changes.—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
22 May 2026
Verb
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Just beyond the front desk, a fire roars behind a massive stone hearth, and a live piano plays in the heart of the resort, the lobby lounge (dubbed the Living Room), a choice spot for lunch, casual meetings, or pre-dinner drinks.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Lemieux entered the bowl, roars stirring like a restless sea.—
Dan Robson,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
Noun
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People are fixating on celebrities of all kinds, accusing singers of body-positive anthems of being hypocritical, rolling their eyes at athletes promoting weight loss drugs and whispering about the thinness of their favorite movie stars.—
Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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The performance will be followed by a selection of anthems.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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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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
Noun
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The entertainment could be a little racier than being serenaded by a trio singing Greek power ballads at dinnertime.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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In the heart of the capital Praia, a city of under 200,000 residents, singers belt out morna ballads from restaurants — morna being Cape Verde's traditional music, with African and Portuguese influences.—
Ricci Shryock,
NPR,
27 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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Clips from the Pitt-Stanford game spread rapidly on Bluesky, where multiple users captured separate free-throw serenades and posted them individually.—
Ryan Brennan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Chants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chants. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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