recital

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Recent Examples of recital She’s set to arrive at Herbst Theatre for an upcoming recital presented by Chamber Music San Francisco. Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026 Back at Bridgerton House, Hyacinth is getting things ready for her recital while ignoring Eloise entirely. Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026 Pianist Lang Lang will present a solo recital. Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026 Georg worked mainly as a pianist, often accompanying singers in recital. Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for recital
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recital
Noun
  • The title track is simply a recitation of imagined Spotify playlists, and once the joke lands we’re not left with much.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Its stories are centuries old – yet they are recited by many Nepalis every winter, even as the daily recitation now competes with many modern distractions, such as smartphones and social media.
    Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The records include emails, internal presentations and other company documents used as exhibits in litigation, as well as court transcripts and witness testimony from depositions.
    David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026
  • While Neural Concept and Tata Consultancy Services offered computer presentations, Tensor’s peek into the automotive future was displayed off-site with several other AI-using and varying autonomous level cars and trucks.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Anything that was anti-Jewish—a story about exclusion, an obstacle that hadn’t come down, a disapproving enumeration of supposedly Jewish traits—was possibly more fascinating.
    Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
  • But first consider the majority of the text of the Declaration: a stirring enumeration of specific grievances by the American colonists against the British crown.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • The presentation of the violin, which happened after the youth symphony played a mini-concert before an IPO performance, took a few months to come about.
    Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Production quirks like volume and pitch changes, multiple beat switches, brash sonic redirections punctuated by everything from samples of glass shattering to synth stabs puncturing through sheaths of filters, make for a kind of chaotic symphony that feels deliriously of the moment.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • What is exhausted is repetition without thought.
    Manuela Moscoso, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The repetition doesn’t conjure stasis so much as the struggle to find a way forward.
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The Big 12 Player of the Year is coming off of one of her best performances as a Horned Frog with 28 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists in the win over Virginia in the Sweet 16.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Espionage is never a solo performance.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • On March 21st in Seoul, South Korea, the K-pop group BTS marched from Gyeongbokgung Palace to take the stage in Gwanghwamun Square, for a concert that was to be streamed across the globe on Netflix.
    Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Trump’s departure from Miami Friday evening will come around the same time as the Ultra concerts heat up and the Marlins game crowd heads to the stadium.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026

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“Recital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recital. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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