genre
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“It’s something that I’ve always loved in the genre that I’ve never explored,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
"The weekend figure is well above average for the genre, in spite of weak reviews and audience ratings," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The revelation inspired a small genre of internet consumer detective work.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
“It’s exciting to be doing something in a genre that is well worn, but to be doing something new.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
We argue over the genre we want to be.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The box-office failure of “Digger” over the weekend shows how hard it remains for movie studios to pack theaters with original films in genres other than horror, Ben Fritz notes for the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
He and former Public Enemy rapper Chuck D just fused music genres on an album called “No Country for Old Men.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"They're also essential to the creation and continuation of so many different genres that came off of that."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Participating bands tend to fall into genres that organizers find engage crowds most, including Bluegrass, rock, blues and Americana.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Jazz celebrity though he was, Duke Ellington disliked his music being pigeonholed as ‘jazz’; he preferred simply to call it ‘American music’, and he experimented in many forms and genres.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing genre
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 3
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