catchy
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In one sense, it’s a simple and catchy tune, but backing vocals, toy piano, woodwinds and percussion give it the stuffed sonic maximalism characteristic of the group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Xiang has catchy names for what is causing this.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Take a bite out of history: In Part 2 of its series on McGruff the Crime Dog, Slate’s Decoder Ring podcast asks the question: Did a trench-coat-wearing dog’s catchy anti-drug anthems actually work?
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
What we saw onscreen, along with the catchy music she made, was, in her telling, the fruit of a creative yield achieved by pressing beyond her breaking point.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
This was the report that would become infamous as the Pentagon Papers, but at the time it had a less catchy name: “History of U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Hormel needed a catchier name to break through.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
A general manager encouraged him to adopt the last name Laboe because it sounded catchier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
“It’d be nice to think of a catchier name,” Potter admits.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2022
After all, the catchier the song, the more difficult it will be for the haters to avoid Lil Nas X in all his glorious, kaleidoscopic humanity.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
It was one of Agatha Swanburne’s catchier sayings, and the children knew it by heart, since Penelope said it often enough.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
A dirty little truth about “feel-good” hits, down to the catchiest ditty, is that they’re rarely a band or an artist’s best work.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
In time, the Shermans would conjure many of the catchiest and most beloved movie songs of the 20th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
As people across the globe participate in various dance trends and create memes, the duo successfully crafted one of the catchiest and most danceable earworms of the year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
Yes, “ Dancing on My Own,” a 2016 dance remix performed by a British reality show contestant improbably became the catchiest song of last season’s run to the World Series.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
The spirit is that of the scherzo, and the main theme is the catchiest imaginable, the rhythm curious and irresistible, and the entire mood saturnalian.
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