catchy
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She didn’t invent the idea of catchy songs about infatuations and breakups where the protagonist’s experience can be mapped to a singer’s life, but she perfected it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“Moana” became a box office hit, captivating audiences with catchy earworms from Lin-Manuel Miranda and a spunky young heroine who rejected the label of princess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
“The colorblind Constitution” is a catchy, memorable way to think about equal protection.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
With catchy hooks and punchy lyrics, the World Cup song has been a popular pre-match aperitif for decades.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
One of his staff had come up with a new, catchy term, “DOTS-plus.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Hormel needed a catchier name to break through.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
I Wrote A Song is a frank and funny revenge track, bitter as a bag of lemons and catchier than the common cold.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2023
A general manager encouraged him to adopt the last name Laboe because it sounded catchier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
“It’d be nice to think of a catchier name,” Potter admits.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2022
It was one of Agatha Swanburne’s catchier sayings, and the children knew it by heart, since Penelope said it often enough.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
It’s by far the catchiest song on a collection unconcerned with easy tunefulness, and is an ideal entry point for the album.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
A dirty little truth about “feel-good” hits, down to the catchiest ditty, is that they’re rarely a band or an artist’s best work.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
Yes, “ Dancing on My Own,” a 2016 dance remix performed by a British reality show contestant improbably became the catchiest song of last season’s run to the World Series.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
A strange phenomenon appeared on the pop music charts this year: Many of the catchiest songs were also the catchiest songs of 2007, or 1998, or 1987.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
Possibly the catchiest of these, a really cute little thing, was achieved by jazzing up the Funeral March.
From And All the Earth a Grave by MacApp, C. C.
