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[eb] / ɛb /




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“When someone asks me about Liza,” the lyricist Fred Ebb once said, “I say that’s like asking a kid about Christmas.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

His mind can’t spin a web of worry when he’s belting out “Maybe This Time” by Kander and Ebb, or “Ease My Mind” from his debut studio album, “Sing to Me Instead.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

She worked with the choreographers Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins, the composer Leonard Bernstein, the songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, and the playwright Terrence McNally, among others.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2024

The songwriters for “Chicago,” Kander and Ebb, also wrote Rivera’s first Tony-winning performance, for “The Rink.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2024

So it was to Scaithe's Ebb that Lord Primus of Stormhold came one night, all dressed in black with a beard as thick and serious as one of the storks' nests in the town's chimneys.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman




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