sing
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The Bananas owner was looking for some legit baseball players who could sing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Licensing each song ensures musicians and rights holders are paid, and lets people request the songs they’ve been dying to sing, from emo deep cuts to Puccini operas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
They had finally delivered a win and the fans had something to sing about.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
“He would just send me the craziest flamenco pieces and say, ‘Transcribe this, learn these articulations, learn these runs, and next week you will sing it in front of me.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Then the adults sing a few more old-time songs that none of the kids know.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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That got him a tryout at Grayson, where he sang “Rolling in the Deep” but, more importantly, pitched to live batters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
In Miami, the star thanked the city because it was the site of her breakthrough on “Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti,” which she sang in Italian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Hush Hush interpolates Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive, which the group sang in Turkish, a striking moment for a group determined to bring their language to an international audience.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Antonio, the oldest, played the trumpet and also sang the Spanish version of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” called “A Mi Manera,” and it was so stunning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
“And oopsie, whoopsie, here comes the TOT,” Penelope sang, swinging the loop of twine ’round and ’round above herself like a lasso.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Fifty thousand people watched him in his canary-yellow Bananas uniform singing live.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
He won the shirt once singing the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” but has since given it away, to whom he can’t remember.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
No phones for the duration, or talking, singing or other interruptions once the needle hits vinyl until the very last track finishes.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
Miller previously said his love for music began accidentally, after becoming "hooked" on singing following an audition for a primary school show.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
It had been a glimpse only, two seconds at the most, but I walked through the corridors of Scheveningen with Betsie’s singing spirit at my side.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The first very high notes I heard sung by a man were on John McCormack’s old recordings, made in the first decades of the 20th century; they were prized items in my grandmother’s collection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The nearly 5-year-old eagle has perched and sung with Shadow, who first paired up with Jackie in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
That requirement ruled out the two most recognisable Korean acts in America, BTS and Blackpink, whose latest releases are primarily sung in English.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Dion appeared at the Eiffel Tower for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics that same year, with her show-stealing performance later becoming the subject of speculation about whether she had sung or lip-synched.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
When Papa Andrew translated her compliment into Krio for us, we all giggled because we thought that we had sung in English.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
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