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chorister

noun

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as in cantor

a member of a choir

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Recent Examples of chorister Already Guerrero seems to be able to convey of-the-moment phrasings and character directions with a few emphatic motions—a roller-coaster swoop here, a waggle of the fingers there—and get an immediate response from the choristers. —

Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025 Datebook Picks Across the street at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco Symphony labor negotiations have remained tense, with musicians and choristers staging multiple protests over artistic direction, compensation and financial transparency. —

Zara Irshad, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2025 The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos. —

Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025 Performed by an orchestra of 23 musicians and eight choristers under the direction of conductor Mathieu Bonnin, the piece was appreciated with respect by the audience. —

Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chorister

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After the synagogue’s board voted to dismiss the cantor, scores of families who were loyal to him left.

— Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Sheri Allen, cantor and co-founder of Makom Shelanu synagogue in Fort Worth, called the law another attempt to dismantle the wall between church and state.

— Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Feb. 2026