études

noun

plural of étude
1
as in studies

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as in works

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for études
  1. studies
  2. works
  3. exercises
  4. opera
  5. drills
  6. masterpieces
  7. pieces
  8. compositions
Noun
  • Graham is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, a professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, and a senior scientist at Gallup, whose World Poll supplied the data for her latest paper.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Earlier studies collected nearly 200 kill dates from beneath them—not one is older than 2,000 years.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of studies
Noun
  • See his portraits—and relive the concert’s joyous celebration of one of musical theater’s most groundbreaking and influential works—below.
    — Vogue, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Sam Wasson, one of Hollywood’s preeminent historians and biographers, has published searching books on the lives and works of Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Mazursky, Blake Edwards and Roman Polanski.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of works
Noun
  • However, many members will complete a short set of exercises on the machines, then stay on the machine or bench while looking at their phones for long periods of time — often 10 minutes or more.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
  • These changes can make functional movements and exercises, like stair climbing, much more challenging.
    — Kristen Gasnick, Verywell Health, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of exercises
Noun
  • Music was how my mother—an opera singer, pianist, and educator—taught me to engage with the world.
    — Hillary Richard, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
  • Seven female opera singers sustained long notes in succession, creating a collective mourning ritual for women lost to racialized and gendered violence.
    — Thomas Rom, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
Definition of opera
Noun
  • But hardening schools and practicing lockdown drills, among other steps to reduce school shootings, are not making young people feel safer.
    — Nina Vinik, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The deployment is Liaoning’s second round of drills in the western Pacific this year.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of drills
Noun
  • Zaha Hadid Architects principal Patrik Schumacher likens the collection’s élan with that achieved by the masterpieces of Michelangelo and the Renaissance, but reimagined for the 21st century.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The film will explore how the band’s trials and tribulations, personal resilience, and musical dexterity combined to create enduring masterpieces.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of masterpieces
Noun
  • Accumulation of glass pieces and liquid debris in the bottom of glassware cooler in bar area.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • There is, of course, an automatic effect to hanging the tabletop pieces in place of the crucifix, their undulating surfaces almost reminiscent of a kind of spiritual abstraction.
    — Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of pieces
Noun
  • Like word clouds, Cubist compositions use typography to model public and social spaces.
    — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Of Drukqs’ 30 tracks, 12 are compositions for the Disklavier in various states of preparation.
    — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of compositions
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