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Recent Examples of oratorio
Handel, a rich celebrity, seems to have donated his share of the oratorio’s proceeds to hospitals and orphanages.
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Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
This year marks the 70th singing of the classic oratorio.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2024
The oratorio, plus related music, will be performed twice each day in the Appel Room by the Jazz at Pride Orchestra on October 18 and 19 and also be streamed.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
Handel, a rich celebrity, seems to have donated his share of the oratorio’s proceeds to hospitals and orphanages.
—Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
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Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
This year marks the 70th singing of the classic oratorio.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2024
The oratorio, plus related music, will be performed twice each day in the Appel Room by the Jazz at Pride Orchestra on October 18 and 19 and also be streamed.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
Handel, a rich celebrity, seems to have donated his share of the oratorio’s proceeds to hospitals and orphanages.
—Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for oratorio
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oratorio
Noun
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The celebrated animated paean to small-town Texas aired its final episode in 2009.—
Ryan Coleman Updated,
EW.com,
25 July 2025
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Karl Johnson makes an excellent Firs, the ancient servant who regrets the freeing of the serfs and who alternates between dignified paeans to the old days and mumbling streams of profanities.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Hyman was the fourth victim killed in the mass shooting.—
Holly Yan,
CNN Money,
1 Aug. 2025
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On Monday, a mass shooting at the Manhattan building where the NFL’s headquarters are located killed four and left one, a league employee, injured.—
Jason Clinkscales,
Sportico.com,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Read: What parents of boys should know Hess does all of this without sharing a drop of advice—hallelujah.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
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Said it over and over like a preacher singing hallelujah.—
Philip Martin,
arkansasonline.com,
13 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Taps played as rain began to fall and the processional paused in front of the digital billboard on the side of a truck parked on the street, flashing images of Officer Islam, both in uniform and at home, smiling with his children in tow.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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The hearse carrying Osbourne's casket, followed by his family who paid for the processional, travelled along Broad Street to the Black Sabbath bench on the Broad Street canal bridge.—
Joanna Moriello,
New York Daily News,
30 July 2025
Noun
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Wylde seemed right at home recreating the droning opening dirge as the band slowed down into a stellar stoney groove throughout a standout moment Saturday night.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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As Black Sabbath’s doomsayer-in-chief, Osbourne could summon a true sense of terror in his keening cries in a way that heightened the band’s muscular dirges.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2025
Noun
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Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.—
Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
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Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul. Column Unwritten Recipes Chantal Braganza Anyone who’s lived long enough to learn to feed themselves likely has some kind of biographical dish.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
4 Jan. 2025
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Three years later, the follow-up, Caroline 2, expands outward in every direction, pairing scraggy, strummed chorales with heart-on-sleeve mantras and distorted furore.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
30 May 2025
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The 70-voice chorale will be accompanied by an organist and a chamber orchestra.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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“Oratorio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oratorio. Accessed 11 Aug. 2025.
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