as in lullaby
a vocal or instrumental performance that is given outdoors at night for a lover
wooed his lady with a serenade
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Recent Examples of serenade
Steve Hartman, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2025
Then, there's the question that all the fangirls are wondering: Will the serenades live on?
—Daniela Avila, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Oliver Kay, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Accompanied by Chad Franklin on keys and Alex Durant on drums, the vocalist will serenade the audience at Carlos and Markisha Swepson’s popular soul food watering hole with an evening of R&B, funk and soul.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
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Noun
And sure enough, her nightly serenade continued without skipping a beat.
—Steve Hartman, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2025
Then, there's the question that all the fangirls are wondering: Will the serenades live on?
—Daniela Avila, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
Liverpool’s supporters serenaded him on his return to action from the bench at Leicester and again after his goal, but there remains an awkwardness around the situation.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Accompanied by Chad Franklin on keys and Alex Durant on drums, the vocalist will serenade the audience at Carlos and Markisha Swepson’s popular soul food watering hole with an evening of R&B, funk and soul.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for serenade
Noun
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Mason’s character Stella soothes one of the horses on the farm with a sort of lullaby, that is actually an original song written just for the film by a friend of Mason’s, Donna Stuart.—
Rebecca Angel Baer,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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Closing her eyes, the young girl fell into a deep sleep of a lullaby.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
1 May 2025
Verb
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While Stapleton crooned, Kidman, 57, could be seen wrapping her hands around the honoree as the pair swayed side to side.—
Ilana Kaplan,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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But imagine the uproar if Fogler wasn’t given a campy song to sing in his laboratory or Wilson wasn’t given a pandering female empowerment anthem to croon in a castle.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
8 May 2025
Noun
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Like a great conductor, another wave of pro-Fever chants broke out.—
Ben Pickman,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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The rhythm of the tabla, the lament of string instruments, and the undercurrent of poetic chant form a symphony of sacred mourning and quiet hope.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
Verb
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The whole montage was respectful and gracious, with a classical score, rather than a pop chipmunk warbling a sensitive ballad about dead people.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2025
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Peggy Seeger’s 1957 recording of it is a brisk, warbling take with arpeggiated acoustic guitar — a classic example of the kind of carefree-songbird tunes from the early folk revival.—
Ben Sisario,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Verb
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There’ll probably be some cowbells, and there might be someone trilling in sultry Portuguese or a burst of wordless, stoic alpha-male grunts.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
26 Mar. 2025
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Her soft-focus voice floats over trilling mandolin picking and reserved fiddle.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Kimberly Douglas, an Illinois woman whose 17-year-old son died of an overdose in 2023, credited the growing chorus of grieving mothers.—
Mike Stobbe,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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Kimberly Douglas, an Illinois whose 17-year-old son died of an overdose in 2023, credited the growing chorus of grieving mothers.—
Geoff Mulvihill,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
Verb
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The world’s second-largest economy continues to face a range of challenges, from job insecurity among the younger generation to sharp downturns in the property sector, once a cornerstone of the country’s economic growth.—
Hassan Tayir,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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The former president's endorsement process has evolved from haphazard to sharp and effective, rendering all other endorsements all but obsolete.—
Kaleigh Rogers,
ABC News,
13 Sep. 2024
Noun
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With hyperpop-ish glee, Barbie veered between musical, slapstick comedy, and melodrama.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
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Julian had a blast cradling the cooing birds and imitating the chant-like calls of the pigeon handlers, flapping his arms with glee as their flocks took flight and landed on command.—
Ashlea Halpern,
AFAR Media,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Serenade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serenade. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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