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as in ballad
a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment
loved that jingle in the commercial for the fast-food place
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Recent Examples of jingle
Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2024
Come up with a punny holiday jingle about Santa and the Grinch to use in my Christmas card.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
So hurry up, and jingle all the way to your nearest Dairy Queen.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024
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Noun
The firm produces keychains that play the jingle on a loop.
—Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2024
Come up with a punny holiday jingle about Santa and the Grinch to use in my Christmas card.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Verb
Christmas stays and plays December is just moments away and those jingle bells are jingling.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
So hurry up, and jingle all the way to your nearest Dairy Queen.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jingle
Noun
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The collar’s microphone and sensors can detect rattlesnakes by listening for the sound of a rattle, or detect if a pet goes missing or is kidnapped.—
Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
15 Oct. 2024
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Which brings up a second paradox: Dudamel always seems most energized with scores full of rhythmic rattle and percussive excitement, pieces that demand pinpoint exactitude and a knack for assembling large, coherent structures out of jagged shards.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Maybe, kinda, but only when the tempo slackens for the album’s final two ballads.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2025
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The swoon-worthy ballad is Gaga’s sixth Hot 100 leader and Mars’ ninth.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
27 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Swift was seen on camera clinking champagne glasses with Beyoncé's husband, Jay-Z, after the Cowboy Carter artist accepted her Grammy onstage on Feb. 2.—
Lindsay Kimble,
People.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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In the final moments of the broadcast she was shown clinking glasses with Jay-Z as his wife, Beyoncé, accepted the night's top honor, album of the year, for the first time.—
Bryan West,
USA TODAY,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Restaurants are noisier than ever, with each clatter and shout threatening our health (not to mention our sanity).—
Jessica Iredale,
airmail.news,
6 Dec. 2024
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Marcos Santiago heard the clatter of metal chains outside cell 201 next door.—
Christie Thompson,
NPR,
18 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Five of the eight shows this season follow the jukebox-musical format, which takes the songs of one particular artist to tell a story.—
Matthew J. Palm,
Orlando Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2025
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The song also spends a 12th week atop both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
5 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Guests in silk blouses and slacks sipped scotch while the piano man tinkled the keys.—
Erin Florio,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Nov. 2024
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That had to have felt like Old Man Winter tinkling on his shoulder.—
Grant Brisbee,
The Athletic,
5 Aug. 2024
Noun
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The artists could have picked punk rock instead of choir hymns, traveling around dive bars recording punks screaming about anarchy and smashing up their gear.—
Oskar Oprey,
Artforum,
28 Jan. 2025
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Anyone interested in performing hymns with Frost and the Village Community Chorale should contact the church music ministries coordinator, Twyla Arant, at twylaa@villagechurch.org.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The alarm was at once sounded by ringing the school bell and the fire department responded and had water on in a very short time, but the fire being all through the building inside the walls and partitions, its progress could not be checked.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Instead of ringing the bell — which often signals the end of chemotherapy treatment — the boy sounds the boxing ring bell by punching the pull cord.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Jingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jingle. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.
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