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chorus

[kawr-uhs, kohr-] / ˈkɔr əs, ˈkoʊr- /




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After England beat New Zealand at Allianz Stadium in September, she spent an hour signing autographs and doing selfies to an unrelenting, screaming chorus of "Ellie, Ellie, Ellie".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Beijing has reported robust growth this year, but a growing chorus of economists are asking if the numbers are accurate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

"Let's go, Lula!" the oft-repeated phrase mingled in the air with a non-stop chorus of honking horns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Of course, Hurts has a cheering section, but their voices are often drowned out by the chorus and echoes of criticism.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

After a few verses of Brent singing, the chorus started, and Momma’s voice filled up every inch of the truck.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

“Is It Cool?,” a character study of an incorrigible cheater, sports one of his most villainous choruses — “You ain’t got to trust me to love me, babe.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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

Other tracks are more about mood than verses and choruses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Blending folk-infused pop songs with anthemic choruses, he has built a reputation for emotionally open songwriting.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Three or four Ayorthaians at a time occupy the stage in turn and sing long, sad ballads or happy tunes or funny ones, joined by the whole throng in the choruses.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

Another Slate colleague, at a bar in southern Italy, reported that all the Americans similarly looked at their phones at once and chorused “Guilty!”

From Slate ● May 30, 2024

“We are revolutionaries. We are free,” they chorused.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2021

With its “bouncy bouncy” refrain chorused by the female backing vocalists, the infuriatingly catchy Rubber Ball was Vee’s first British hit, peaking at No 4 at the beginning of 1961.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2016

“Right 30,” his mates chorused back, shifting direction slightly.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2015

“It’s true,” chorused the rest, who had somehow managed to pick this up along the way.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

It can be hard on the eardrums when all those cicadas get together in those trees and start chorusing.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

This time, you have chosen to call in, to take a couple of minutes of your day to hear some Hall and Oates, or “My Old Kentucky Home,” or a tinny recording of chorusing cicadas.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2021

The 78ers follow the First Nations and the crowd is cheering and grinning, cries of “Thank you!” chorusing up from the stands.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2018

Arkansas is also home to annual cicadas, which will emerge and begin their chorusing.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2015

A ghoul might seem to have set it going, and laughing hyenas to be chorusing it.

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood


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