Thesaurus results for ROUNDELAY

roundelay

noun

Definition of roundelay

as in chorus

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Recent Examples of roundelay At Houlihan Lokey, Swain persists in the headlong roundelay of networking that’s his calling card. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025 At the time, Garry Marshall’s star-studded roundelay of couples and non-couples making their way through Valentine’s Day was compared to Love, Actually, which had a similarly intercutting, multicharacter structure. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025 The other two notable participants in the nearly farcical roundelay of romances are Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm (Cooper Grodin) and his wife, Charlotte (Sierra Boggess). — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022 Kusijanović, making her feature directing debut, plots the family’s dynamic through a roundelay of gazes and with near-geometric precision. — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022 The house had a feeling of being offstage, at least compared with the comic roundelay of Turtle Bay. — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022 The story itself is pure Western pulp, a dime-store roundelay of banditos, lost dreams, and femme fatales. — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2021 What followed was a frustrating roundelay in which Chime directed Robertson to the IRS, and the IRS directed her to Chime. — Carson Kessler, ProPublica, 6 July 2021

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Noun

But a growing chorus of patients, clinicians, and advocacy organizations are sounding the alarm that the agency is failing to use this regulatory flexibility.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 31 July 2026
Now her uncle Gary Goldsmith is publicly joining in the chorus.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 30 July 2026

Definition of chorus

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Russian war bloggers responded to Fedorov’s dismissal with glee, noting his role in masterminding long-range drone strikes on oil facilities that have caused a fuel crisis and midrange attacks that disrupted military logistics.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026
Although Jones takes responsibility for the hurt and dysfunction his compulsive tomcatting caused, the legendary lothario details his conquests with barely disguised glee.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026

Definition of glee

Noun

The scene, which is played earnestly and runs a tad shorter in length than the Kens’ Barbie serenade to Matchbox 20, was always scripted to include Oasis’s most popular song.

— Devon Ivie, Vulture, 17 July 2026
With wonder and with great shame the yodel is an orphaned sound, a sound that turns the serenade toward an addressee that is destined to never hear it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

Definition of serenade

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Reilly, who composed the song wholesale, seems content to swap his Satie-esque irresolution for something straightforwardly plaintive, like a lullaby.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 30 July 2026
The book will also be accompanied by a forthcoming lullaby written and performed by Mercer, extending the story beyond the page, while the audiobook edition will be narrated by the musician himself.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 15 July 2026

Definition of lullaby

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The concert will include Renaissance madrigals—one English and one French.

— Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.

— Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025

Definition of madrigal

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Soon, United’s supporters were singing this weird ditty in salute to a goalkeeper who could be, well, in the grand tradition of the position, eccentric.

— Andy Mitten, New York Times, 27 July 2026
In the streaming music world, having access to all your favorite tunes and ditties is integral.

— Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 20 July 2026

Definition of ditty

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