fugue
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Yet investors didn’t show the same anxiety once trading started, sending the indices into a sort of fugue state.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
“He’s the Rock of Ages of music,” says Carpenter, who particularly loves the fugue nicknamed “St. Anne” and the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
The first half of the Met Orchestra’s concert included a somewhat bumpy reading of a fugue from Bach’s “Musical Offering,” in an instrumentation by Anton Webern.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024
Tai has gone into such a fugue state that she's hallucinating visits with her son and causing accidents with her ex-wife in the passenger seat.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2023
But we have at last begun to listen for other voices in the cosmic fugue.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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