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Recent Examples of refrain
During our quarterly strategy days, staff refrain from taking meetings to focus on longer-term projects or planning.
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Matthew Gayer, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Rather than refrain from communicating with faculty and students, university leaders might acknowledge the fear and pain people are feeling in response to anti-immigration and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.
—Annmarie Caño, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2025
That has been an all-too-familiar refrain for frustrated Comcast viewers since the regional sports network, the successor to NBC Sports Chicago, launched in October as the new TV home of the Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
Batteries of loudspeakers throbbed with a song whose refrain has become a catchphrase for those who want Mr. Yoon ousted.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
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Matthew Gayer, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Rather than refrain from communicating with faculty and students, university leaders might acknowledge the fear and pain people are feeling in response to anti-immigration and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.
—Annmarie Caño, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2025
That has been an all-too-familiar refrain for frustrated Comcast viewers since the regional sports network, the successor to NBC Sports Chicago, launched in October as the new TV home of the Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
Batteries of loudspeakers throbbed with a song whose refrain has become a catchphrase for those who want Mr. Yoon ousted.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refrain
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Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty Images Oil giant BP is bracing itself for a shareholder backlash at its annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday, with a chorus of disgruntled investors planning to voice their concerns over the firm’s green strategy U-turn.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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An orchestra, a chorus, a jazz big band, a marching band—these are complex macroorganisms whose inner workings require formidable feats of interactive precision, all of which depend on information encoded in a written score.—
Matthew Aucoin,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Refrain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refrain. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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