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Kuo would croon standards like “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Then you had both sides: the croon and the explosion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

More recent interpreters underline the song’s vast reach, from Harolyn Blackwell’s operatic radiance and Norah Jones’s hushed Tanglewood version to Kenny Barron’s pensive piano meditation and Willie Nelson’s weathered country croon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Del Rey’s feathery croon was totally wrong for the song, which calls for an unembarrassed quality that’s not part of her whole deal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025

The woman took his palm, spat on it—he flinched, but she hung on to it— rubbed it with her thumb, and began to croon.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Annie Tarin, a University of Arizona student, made a viral montage set to Chappell Roan’s “The Subway,” in which the pop star croons about a former soulmate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Now, as I ride through Koreatown, Alicia Keys croons, “Everything’s gonna be all right.”

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

Lockwood depicts the trajectory of illness through the kind of surrealism that sparked Plath’s “Ariel”; so much depends on how well you absorb the loony-tune Lockwood croons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

As Sammie croons, he’s joined by an electric guitarist playing like Jimi Hendrix but dressed like a member of Parliament-Funkadelic.

From Salon ● May 2, 2025

Go out with a bang, the singer on this new track croons.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Last summer, a viral Tiktoker crooned, “I’m looking for a man in finance, trust fund, six-five, blue eyes,” turning spreadsheet warriors into the season’s most eligible bachelors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

“All I know is you need someone, in the by and by, you need someone who’s gonna cry for you,” Bird crooned, eyes closed, voice nearly breaking with emphasis on the aptly titled “Need Someone.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Diplomatic wheels, it seemed, were in motion, even as the lack of detail left many around the world with suspicious minds, as Elvis once crooned.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

As I crooned “I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive” along with Hank Williams, I added a little yodel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

"You can be president, you were born here," the grandfather crooned.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

For many, the waterfront that Lebanese singer Fairouz immortalised in 1961 -- crooning about "the coast of Alexandria, coast of love" -- is no more.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

The label is fitting in part on a literal level because Gunn ends his movie on Superman’s smiling face with the song “Punkrocker,” which features Iggy Pop crooning, “I’m a punkrocker, yes I am.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

Wednesday's news conference was staged at The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater, a venue that hosted Frank Sinatra at his crooning peak and Miss Universe pageants during Miami Beach's mid-century boom.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

No amount of Kate Bush’s heroic crooning will save them.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025

They were just leaning there, laughing and so on, and then they started crooning, leaning in, heads together, snapping fingers.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison