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chorus

[kawr-uhs, kohr-] / ˈkɔr əs, ˈkoʊr- /




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He performed the 1986 megahit, with the audience belting the chorus in his place toward the end.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

This is where the chorus cries out that if we don’t do it, someone else will.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Visitors should feel a "connection" to the birds, Jimmy says, returning to the days of being woken by the dawn chorus.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

He’d seen the TV commercials for the new sets, powered by “smart bricks” that light up when laser blasts are fired and emit a chorus of zooming spacecraft engine sounds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Nathan sang the first verse and the chorus.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Six minutes and 26 additional choruses later, Gonsalves and Ellington had completely changed the fortunes of the band, of the Rhode Island festival, and even American music itself.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

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

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

Arias, recitatives and choruses are more like ruminations from the King James Bible, as part of a spiritual journey.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2026

Then a few modest choruses of “sell the team” broke out.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 4, 2026

Sandi choruses: “What business is it of Otto’s if you’ve gotten your period or no?”

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

“Yes on A.B. 5! Yes on A.B. 5!” they chorused.

From New York Times Sep. 9, 2019

One pocket of the room raised their glasses, chorused “Hopp Suisse!” and drained them.

From Washington Post Jun. 21, 2018

“Hey, rocket boys! Why don’t your rockets fly?” they chorused.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

The relaxation of a strain was quite unmistakable in this last chorusing.

From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.




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