as in emotion
a subjective response to a person, thing, or situation
the story of the family's woes struck a sympathetic chord with newspaper readers
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Relevance
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as in to correspond
to be in agreement on every point
the revised system chords perfectly with the original goals
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Recent Examples of chord
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2026
The pianist may introduce a new chord color.
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Gerald J. Leonard,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
IEEE Spectrum,
29 May 2024
With the brand new Mike McCready Stratocaster, the artist now has a guitar designed to his specifics, including a custom pickup set to sound like his 1960 Stratocaster, a six-point tremolo, and a fingerboard radius that has enough arc for chording and easier note bending.
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Daniel Kohn,
Spin,
12 Sep. 2023
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Noun
Robinson’s personal effort to reclaim her joy quickly struck a chord with other women who longed to reconnect with the carefree days of their youth.
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Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2026
The pianist may introduce a new chord color.
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Gerald J. Leonard,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Verb
Hypersonic passenger planes, deep-sea thermal-energy power plants, chording keyboards—all have their adherents, eager to jump at the chance of covering their infatuation.
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IEEE Spectrum,
29 May 2024
With the brand new Mike McCready Stratocaster, the artist now has a guitar designed to his specifics, including a custom pickup set to sound like his 1960 Stratocaster, a six-point tremolo, and a fingerboard radius that has enough arc for chording and easier note bending.
—
Daniel Kohn,
Spin,
12 Sep. 2023
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Noun
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Having a separate room to have this man handle his emotions may be helpful too.
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If emotions swell, step back for ten minutes, breathe with music, then return to your art with a clearer, kinder tone.
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The most popular team kits this year are for Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France and USA, while corresponding player jerseys from Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé and Lamine Yamal are also selling quickly, thanks to their performances on the pitch (and overall star quality to boot).
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The cameras, not so much hunting as scavenging, fed the numbers and their corresponding locations into a national database owned by a company that sells the information.
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Whether those moments carry the same depth of feeling by the time the finale rolls around is another matter.
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For someone whose path to that sisterhood involved survival shows, multiple years of training, and a college deposit paid the day before her life changed, that feeling took a long time to find.
Verb
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Trump is expected to deliver remarks, and the event coincides with the Great American State Fair and a FIFA World Cup watch party on the National Mall.
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With the country cash-strapped, the Arab Spring of 2011 set off a wave of mass migration into Europe, which coincided with the widespread perception that the extra numbers were placing further strains on already creaking resources of jobs, housing and healthcare.
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None of it was charity in the ordinary sense.
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Swift's history of Fourth of July parties Perhaps another clue why the week of the Fourth of July makes sense for Swift and Kelce's wedding is that the popstar has long been known for throwing elaborate parties over the American holiday.
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This design maximizes ocean views while conforming to the slope across five or possibly more levels.
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The Pride in Production initiative from Pink Triangle Press has key industry backing and aims to drive more acceptance for Two spirit, trans, non-binary and gender non conforming people working in Canada’s screen sectors.
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The show’s dramatic romance and journey of self-growth seems to fit in line with something Austen would’ve imagined for her characters.
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Scott Penn, senior landscape architect for the city of Fort Worth, said a standard community center is 25,000 square feet, which does not fit the five-acre park.
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“Chord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chord. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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