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Recent Examples of twang
As the song unfolds, their voices begin to braid together like twin strands of ivy—a Scottish lilt and a Montana twang—creeping across a hard stone wall of fuzzy grunge guitars.
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Liam Hess, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2026
Don’t let the Texas twang in his speech fool you.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Dec. 2025
At Denver's Swallow Hill BanjoFest on Saturday, the toe-tappin' rhythm, quick-pickin' chords and an unmistakable twang filled the air.
—Kennedy Cook, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2025
The country twang of her Nashville origins has been replaced with sonorous synths, and in the case of Showgirl, a throwback to the retro electric guitar sound of her bestselling 2014 album 1989.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
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Liam Hess, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2026
Don’t let the Texas twang in his speech fool you.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Dec. 2025
At Denver's Swallow Hill BanjoFest on Saturday, the toe-tappin' rhythm, quick-pickin' chords and an unmistakable twang filled the air.
—Kennedy Cook, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2025
The country twang of her Nashville origins has been replaced with sonorous synths, and in the case of Showgirl, a throwback to the retro electric guitar sound of her bestselling 2014 album 1989.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twang
Noun
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By 1996, every band with a guitar felt the pressure to crank its amps as loud as possible, and even indie pop fans heard the clean jangle of prior years give way to the distorted crunch and Psychocandy worship of bands like Black Tambourine and Henry’s Dress.—
David Glickman,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
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Koolhaas sang the joys of juxtapositions in his 1978 book Delirious New York, and here his firm has cultivated a distinctively New York–y jangle of forms in which the utilitarian becomes the theatrical.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The dish had hardly a hint of sweetness at all beyond the butter’s lactic tang.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
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Pepper-forward Owensboro Barbecue Sauce is heavy on the spices and tang but light on the prep.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
10 May 2026
Noun
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The seeds are loose and clatter around inside the pods, giving baptisia the name rattleweed, as children once used the seedpods as rattles.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
12 May 2026
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With dresses and intimate wear for women; jewelry; personal care products; men’s wallets; baby swaddles, stuffies, rattles and teething toys; dog leashes, collars and toys; greeting cards and a wide range of home decor, the store is drawing people in.—
Sarah Kyrcz,
Hartford Courant,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Periodically a mandolin tinkles, or maybe a fiddle swoops in as if from a low-hanging cloud.—
Theater Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Feb. 2026
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Roberts doesn’t offer much empathy for the poor, diseased critter other than a pause when Ben momentarily ponders his reflection in a pool as Adrian Johnston’s eerie synth-piano score tinkles.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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After Masahiro Tanaka threw a complete-game shutout against the Tampa Bay Rays in 2019, Sterling broke out a jingle that incorporated his love for Broadway music.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
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Anyone with a Samsung washing machine has heard the jingle.—
Kari Barnett,
Sun Sentinel,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Sound has nowhere to go but back at you, amplifying every clink and clatter until your reasonable-volume conversation doesn’t stand a chance.—
Allyson Reedy,
Denver Post,
13 May 2026
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In Threes, builds its sentences from splats, crashes, clucks, clinks, whooshes, and thuds.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The result is a fiery and impassioned offering that finds the veteran fully engaged and intent on proving no chinks have been left in his armor despite his tenuous back-and-forth with his Compton counterpart.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
15 May 2026
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One heel struck the car’s bonnet, leaving a silver chink.—
‘Pemi Aguda,
Literary Hub,
6 May 2026
Noun
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Magaletti ventures a tentative introduction of brushes on snares; following the muted peal of distant thunder, upsammy chimes in with a plangent synthesizer sequence reminiscent of Arovane and other IDM producers from around the turn of the millennium.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
13 Apr. 2026
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The silence of the lake—save for the gentle peal of church bells on Sunday mornings and the plop of ducks plunging beneath the water surface—is a rare and unforgettable pleasure.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Twang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twang. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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