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Recent Examples of croons
Gary Trust,
Billboard,
26 Jan. 2026
Murray — beloved for iconic roles in Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack and other films — croons spirited renditions of timeless songs, from Bob Dylan to the Kinks to Tommy Tutone.
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Travis Pinson,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Jan. 2026
Guests are also offered complimentary city treats, like hot, powdery beignets, served from a charming lobby cart each afternoon, and Jeremy Davenport croons jazz tunes four nights a week in his namesake lounge.
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AFAR Media,
30 Dec. 2025
Gregg, 60, croons to Murphy, who looks adoringly into his eyes.
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Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
24 Dec. 2025
Phillips croons about a mother’s bond with her child as Swinton walks off, her character freshly wrecked by a visit with her son in prison.
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Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
Tonatiuh croons a few ballads, though Lopez skillfully takes on most of the heavy musical work.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
8 Oct. 2025
Mark croons and strums campfire acoustic.
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Jonathan Terrell,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
Richard Marx croons his way onto Billboard’s jazz charts for the first time in a career as a lead recording artist that dates back almost 40 years.
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Gary Trust,
Billboard,
26 Jan. 2026
Murray — beloved for iconic roles in Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack and other films — croons spirited renditions of timeless songs, from Bob Dylan to the Kinks to Tommy Tutone.
—
Travis Pinson,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Jan. 2026
Guests are also offered complimentary city treats, like hot, powdery beignets, served from a charming lobby cart each afternoon, and Jeremy Davenport croons jazz tunes four nights a week in his namesake lounge.
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AFAR Media,
30 Dec. 2025
Gregg, 60, croons to Murphy, who looks adoringly into his eyes.
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Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
24 Dec. 2025
Phillips croons about a mother’s bond with her child as Swinton walks off, her character freshly wrecked by a visit with her son in prison.
—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
Tonatiuh croons a few ballads, though Lopez skillfully takes on most of the heavy musical work.
—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
8 Oct. 2025
Mark croons and strums campfire acoustic.
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Jonathan Terrell,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for croons
Verb
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Her series are inevitably female-centric and like the Brontës, who wrote 200 years and a few miles away, her work excavates the drama of daily life and the tension between good and evil that sings below any surface.
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Lavers is riding with the same crew as the first go-around, which includes his partner McGrory, who sings under the alias Colle, and the violinist Zachary Paul.
Noun
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Scrolling SoundCloud the other week, I was reminded of the Blackberry arguments, email apologies, and voicemail serenades of the Heartbreak Drake era.
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Clips from the Pitt-Stanford game spread rapidly on Bluesky, where multiple users captured separate free-throw serenades and posted them individually.
Verb
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This deck area positively hums with IG brunch-scene potential.
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To prevent its data centers from overheating, SpaceX plans to adopt liquid cooling, but not the kind that hums inside your desktop PC.
Noun
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That realization led him to a collection of honky-tonk stompers, highway ballads and intimate character studies.
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The ballads, though, are where the trumpeter puts on his Harmon mute and things turn magical.
Noun
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Australian singer-songwriter Tash Sultana presented an emotional and powerful mid-afternoon set with soaring guitar solos and vocals, live looping and musical dexterity that left the audience stunned in the best way possible.
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Guitar strums peak through the mix like fresh blades of grass and sweeping drums gently carry the songs forward, while Lenae sounds sweeter than ever, her airy vocals chasing the wind like white dandelion puffs.
Noun
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Notorious Knicks villains such as Trae Young, Joel Embiid and CJ McCollum received similarly contentious choruses in recent postseasons.
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People themselves keep those choruses alive.
Noun
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Before us, in a curtain of matte black against the vibrant green, a beautiful, enormous silverback lays flopped on his back surrounded by eight gorillas of all ages wrestling around him.
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While the 40-foot steeple of Crown Point’s oldest church lays toppled along Grant Street and East North Street, treasures found inside the 139-year-old church have found their way into new light.
Noun
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The United Kingdom is on course for its sixth prime minister in some seven years, as one political leader after another proves no match for a stubbornly weak economy, which has weighed on incomes and living standards, wearing down the electorate.
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The sheriff said the agency remains committed to transparency, professionalism and ethical standards.
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“Croons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/croons. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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