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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
Though the male voices are greater in number, the top notes from the five female singers land as though from a practiced, full-time chorale.
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Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 Dec. 2025
The audience can sing Handel’s Messiah, including the Hallelujah Chorus, with the chorale, directed by John Russell and accompanied by organist Martin Green.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2025
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
Three years later, the follow-up, Caroline 2, expands outward in every direction, pairing scraggy, strummed chorales with heart-on-sleeve mantras and distorted furore.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 30 May 2025
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Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 Dec. 2025
The audience can sing Handel’s Messiah, including the Hallelujah Chorus, with the chorale, directed by John Russell and accompanied by organist Martin Green.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2025
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
Three years later, the follow-up, Caroline 2, expands outward in every direction, pairing scraggy, strummed chorales with heart-on-sleeve mantras and distorted furore.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chorale
Noun
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The inspiring and idiosyncratic debut from a 53-year-old priest in Greece pinballs between drone metal and techno Christmas carols, field recordings and hymns.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Pitchfork,
14 May 2026
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The hymns are sung in High German, even though almost no one speaks it anymore.—
Maria Giesbrecht,
PEOPLE,
11 May 2026
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Fresh from their Spain tour, the choir will be performing a variety of American choral classics and gospel selections.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 May 2026
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The honorees for the night are the late Pat Bass, LACHSA’s gospel choir director, retiring LACHSA theater department chair Lois Hunter, and Jerry Freedman, a longtime social studies teacher at the school.—
Daniel Kohn,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
Noun
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The singer, songwriter and actress also performed the anthem before the 2015 and 2024 races.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 May 2026
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Iranian officials have also asked for their flag and anthem to be respected, and for security guarantees at airports, hotels and stadiums.—
Khaled Wassef,
CBS News,
13 May 2026
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Those are the choruses of some of the most popular songs by the Cocteau Twins, a band that seemed to come from out of nowhere with its own musical language, and its own deeply original way of using the English language.—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
12 May 2026
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The clouds are a chorus behind them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 May 2026
Noun
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The epitome of that tradition is Choral Evensong, an evening service of hymns, psalms and prayers laid out by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of the Church of England, in 1549.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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After all, audiences may be captivated by the psalm singing itself, but then can also find more things that capture their imagination in the observational doc.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Chorale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chorale. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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