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[klas-ik] / ˈklæs ɪk /




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Among the best are five excellent titles with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, a working band of white musicians from both the Crescent City and Chicago, including “Milenberg Joys,” another canonical classic of early jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

This is even obvious on the first version of his classic “The Pearls,” recorded in Richmond, Ind., for Gennett in July 1923.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

At the Los Angeles Culinary Institute he trained in classic French cooking, then became a pastry chef at the Ritz-Carlton.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Some Wall Street analysts see the weakness in chip stocks as a classic opportunity to buy the dip, with Cantor Fitzgerald analyst C.J.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

“Ooh, looks like we’ve got ourselves a classic Hobbes versus Rousseau philosophical quandary.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

A Taylor Swift fan for 20 years, Angela wanted to create a podcast with her uncle, who holds degrees in English, history, classics and literary history.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

But viewers mostly enjoyed its comedy value - with outlandish outfits and zingy one-liners from co-stars Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close sending the show straight into the pantheon of 'camp classics'.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Students, vying for the class, expressed the urge to be forced to tackle classics, sharpen their attention spans and think for themselves in the age of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Because Carpenter reaches for all of the concession-stand classics — M&Ms, Red Vines, Hershey’s bars — they wanted to incorporate fun, nostalgic, textural elements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

She picked up an old volume of classics and flipped through its pages.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti


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