scop

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as in troubadour

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  1. troubadour
  2. poet laureate
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  • Showing the kind of humility that one just doesn’t see in the music business — or, all too often, in any business at all — Frank turned over the last part of the main set to fellow CCM troubadour Cory Asbury.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 15 July 2026
  • On the surface, the latest album from Texas troubadour Kacey Musgraves muses about rediscovering a center of gravity after the end of a relationship and acclimating to long-term dry spells interspersed with low-stakes hookups.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 July 2026
Definition of troubadour
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  • John Hughes, the poet laureate of ’80s teen angst, was born in 1950 in Michigan.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2026
  • At Charlie’s, a group of engineers presented me with a wooden plaque naming me the company’s poet laureate.
    — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
Definition of poet laureate
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