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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
Pupils clustered outside the doors of several schools in Paris and other cities in the morning hours, brandishing placards and megaphones and chanting slogans, and marches were planned later in the day.
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Reuters,
NBC news,
13 Oct. 2026
Some protesters nevertheless broke through police cordons, chanting slogans against Modi and election authorities before being detained.