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as in hymn
a religious song
practiced a chorale to perform in church
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Recent Examples of chorale
Synchronized blinking faded when the researchers sped up the Bach chorales to 120 beats per minute.
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Jesse Greenspan,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
Grymes reconstructed those works and arranged other popular war songs for the chorale to perform.
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Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Jan. 2026
Meyers, performed works by Bach, Morten Lauridsen and Eric Whitacre alongside Grant Gershon, the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the chorale’s members.
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Camelia Heins,
Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
This will be a full live production of Peter Rothstein’s a cappella chorale piece, offered as an add-on to the Playhouse on Park season subscription.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
20 Aug. 2025
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Jesse Greenspan,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
Grymes reconstructed those works and arranged other popular war songs for the chorale to perform.
—
Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Jan. 2026
Meyers, performed works by Bach, Morten Lauridsen and Eric Whitacre alongside Grant Gershon, the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the chorale’s members.
—
Camelia Heins,
Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
This will be a full live production of Peter Rothstein’s a cappella chorale piece, offered as an add-on to the Playhouse on Park season subscription.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chorale
Noun
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The ceremony included Colombia's national anthem but also the rebel hymn of the Border Commandos -- the lyrics of which make no mention of the group's crimes.
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For centuries, spiritual hymns have kept hope alive, even more so for the enslaved.
Noun
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Rose, who put together the flash choir just a few weeks earlier, stepped off the stage to join them.
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Eddie, a mechanic, was also a deacon at the church, an usher and a member of the choir, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
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.
Noun
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Fundstrat Global Advisors' Tom Lee has joined a growing chorus of Wall Street bulls forecasting the S & P 500 will end the year at 8,000.
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The chorus rises into a falsetto that can carry urgency, comfort, and humor before a listener understands a single word.
Noun
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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.
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“Chorale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chorale. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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