genre
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The perennial problem with horror, even contemporary horror, is that it’s an extremely difficult genre to migrate from.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
They’ve surpassed $2 billion in sales for Starbucks, as they’ve launched an ever-sprawling genre of refresher varieties: water-based, lemonade-based, coconut milk–based, chili-dusted, frozen and blended.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
The continuing “No Ordinary Love” campaign speaks to the Gen Z-led revival of the romance genre as well as the AI-era’s reading-as-a-status-symbol trope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The genre dispute was represented by two rival record companies that defined 1990s hip-hop: Knight's Death Row Records and Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
All of these songs have musical characteristics particular to the genre from which they emerged.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
He added that Sony is looking for ways to integrate gaming and anime, genres he said have a natural affinity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Quaresma says making Therapy at the Club taught her "how fun it is to really blend genres and to delve more into making pop music to make really big songs".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
He associates sandy, earthy music with African and Latin genres, like the samba he recorded in São Paulo for “The Garden.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
I have certain genres that I always check out: I’m particularly into Jamaican gospel now, which is kind of primitive and not reggae, very illuminated, great singers.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
All around its besieged citadel, live music was booming as never before, but only in genres in which it was acceptable - desirable, even - to move with the times.
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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