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tenor

noun as in high male voice

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At the Tuesday night gala, the president’s favorite tenor, Christopher Macchio, serenaded business executives.

His phrasing calls to mind the way an early hero of his, Lester Young, used to “sing” a song’s lyrics through his tenor saxophone.

Such was the tenor of the movie releases of the early 1940s.

The money investors added to “short- and intermediate-term government bond ETFs indicates that investors are eschewing longer-term tenors in favor of the belly of the curve,” wrote Bartolini.

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The emotional tenor of the viral post is striking.

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