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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

Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, where the birds sing words and the flowers croon, presented by Dole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

The owls still croon and croon, and the air is thick with spirits.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

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

Later, on the acoustic guitar ballad If You Ever Change Your Mind, he croons, "I love you, I love you," with a quiet sincerity rarely found in a pop record.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025

James Darren, once Gidget’s guy, still croons tunes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024

Suesetta plays the record and Billy Eckstine croons his blues away.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

The wholesome Rodgers and Hammerstein tunes have been taught in classrooms, crooned in karaoke bars and used in U.S.-China diplomacy for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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

They have crooned to covers of Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter, danced in the style of K-pop stars and pretended to have beef with other boy bands—and Katy Perry, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

TVs across the state blared what became known as the “banjo ad,” in which a country singer crooned that Newby would bring “justice tough but fair.”

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025

“Good boy,” Lissa crooned as he descended, “good boy.”

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

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

The romantic element of Sondheim’s score is best captured in the gorgeous singing of Chris Hunter’s Anthony Hope, whose crooning of “Johanna” provokes an epidemic of goosebumps throughout La Mirada Theatre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 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

Jasper claimed his favorite spot on the bench, crooning with vigor, as if he’d just gobbled down a Christmas feast.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead