as in choruses
an organized group of singers
joined the choir for next year
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Recent Examples of choirs
Brown hopes to make the 3D printing plans and software open source, allowing choirs of dinosaur skull-instruments to be created everywhere.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
This production, which will include some local children's choirs, is recommended for people 6 and older.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
The sacred inheritance passed down from grandmothers who laughed even when there was little to laugh about, from church choirs that sang through sorrow, from front porches where stories and sweet tea flowed in equal measure.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Wales, meanwhile, sings in slate and soul—its valleys dotted with woolly sheep and echoed by the lilting notes of male voice choirs drifting from chapel doors.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The brassy backing vocals and gospel choirs that have long defined the 2020 Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year's sound are present.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 May 2025
Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
This production, which will include some local children's choirs, is recommended for people 6 and older.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
The sacred inheritance passed down from grandmothers who laughed even when there was little to laugh about, from church choirs that sang through sorrow, from front porches where stories and sweet tea flowed in equal measure.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Wales, meanwhile, sings in slate and soul—its valleys dotted with woolly sheep and echoed by the lilting notes of male voice choirs drifting from chapel doors.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The brassy backing vocals and gospel choirs that have long defined the 2020 Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year's sound are present.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for choirs
choruses
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Bell continues to work with senior choruses, lends his voice to podcasts about musicals and Sondheim, and plans future productions with Bergen County Players.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Propelled by one of guitarist Wes Borland’s hypnotic riffs, crunching beats, old-school record scratches and the group’s signature shouty choruses, the whole thing comes crashing to a close with a pummeling final chorus that finally nods to the country star in the title.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Choirs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choirs. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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