anthem

As Aretha Franklin's Respect became an anthem for a generation demanding greater equality, the widespread availability of contraception changed the ideas about sex.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Thousands have shown up in the capital Kyiv since last week, beating makeshift cardboard signs and singing the Ukrainian national anthem.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

He took out his guitar, started strumming, and soon created the folk song that would become an anthem for his small opposition group, Not In My Backyard Imperial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Bolstered by Finch’s ferocious basslines, hit single “Pretend We’re Dead” received significant airplay on alternative rock stations and became the group’s signature song, along with the biting anti-war anthem “Wargasm.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

Rayner Taylor announced that he would be printing “an anthem suitable to the present occasion.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

He was booed by the crowd during the national anthems and again when he took the field with Infantino after the game for the awards ceremony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

And just like she promises in my summer staple, Bonnie Tyler’s huge choruses and blockbuster anthems will be ravishing us until the end of this endless night.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

One thing that can unite us all — and all lovers of liberty, for that matter — is those Latin American national anthems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

The Group L game in Dallas was Tuchel's first as a World Cup manager but he revealed the occasion, particularly the emotion of the national anthems, was spoiled.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

People walk the paths of the gardens below, and the wind sings anthems in the hedges, and the big old cedars at the entrance to the maze creak.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr