intoning

present participle of intone
as in chanting
to utter in musical or drawn out tones "The day is begun," the narrator intoned

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chanting
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  • On multiple occasions last season, fans were chanting for him to be fired.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The footage shows what appeared to be more than a hundred protesters gathered outside a building at night, chanting and confronting lines of armed federal personnel.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Intoning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intoning. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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