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Recent Examples of intoningWhen reading Blake in a Harlem apartment in 1948, Ginsberg was struck with a vision of the Romantic poet, intoning his own verse in his own voice.—Literary Hub,
3 June 2026 The news site Deadspin took clips of different anchors intoning the same words and laid them over one another to make a hellish cacophony.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intoning
chanting
Verb
After rounding the bases in the seventh, Volpe came out of the dugout for a curtain call to salute fans who were chanting his name again.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Sep. 2026
As the ovation stretched into its sixth minute, the audience began chanting for director Lance Oppenheim and singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, who makes her acting debut in the film.