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soprano

noun as in person with high singing voice

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Alder was the night's star soprano, promising "an uplifting evening" as an antidote to global political turmoil.

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Sanchez recounted the time when his soprano saxophone was stolen — and Palmieri helped him pay for a new one.

She went to dozens of auditions but recalled that "a fat soprano singing Madame Butterfly rather badly always won".

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The bats colonising Ms Murchie's home are soprano pipistrelles, which are among the most common and widespread of British bat species.

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Rebirth in this thrillingly massive symphony for a massive orchestra and chorus, along with soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, was writ exceedingly large, transparent and loud.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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