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Recent Examples of oratorio
Across the aisle from me on a plane is a man studying a score (Schumann’s oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri).
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Apr. 2025
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
This year marks the 70th singing of the classic oratorio.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2024
An oratorio is essentially an unstaged opera, a story told in music.
—Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Apr. 2025
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
This year marks the 70th singing of the classic oratorio.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2024
An oratorio is essentially an unstaged opera, a story told in music.
—Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oratorio
Noun
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This is one of the greatest paeans to that era of filmmaking.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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Nixon’s point about the problem of casting Manson as a celebrity was, at bottom, a paean to the importance of an orderly judicial process.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Chowchilla Featuring exclusive interviews with the survivors, the 2023 documentary from CNN Films and HBO Max explores the most bizarre mass kidnapping of all time.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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There were also prisoners, paupers and unclaimed bodies who went into mass graves, including remains of 39,307 Catholics at Holy Cross.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 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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Royal fans and political observers noted that Tiffany’s place in the processional was five places behind that of her husband, Michael Boulos, People said.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
18 Sep. 2025
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The processional’s route will be posted at a later time.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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At first a dirge, then the tempo rises, and the hymnal swells.—
Jenny Adams,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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Further down the lineup, Friday has Bieber collaborator and indie fave Dijon alongside the melodic dirges of Ethel Cain.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Duke of York retreated from public life in November 2019 after a car crash interview with the BBC about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, but attended the requiem mass at Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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This will be a full live production of Peter Rothstein’s a cappella chorale piece, offered as an add-on to the Playhouse on Park season subscription.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
20 Aug. 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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“Oratorio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oratorio. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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