instrumental
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One challenge is that reliable instrumental climate records cover less than a century.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
The record executive was a pioneer of the music industry who was instrumental in signing and developing artists including Franklin, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, Billy Joel, Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Some of the ballads feel like instrumental renditions of soul classics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Macron played an instrumental role over nearly a decade in pushing for the tapestry loan, which is viewed as another step towards healing the rancour of the Brexit years.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Another critical factor was that it was not only the Alice Pauls and other upper-middle-class women who were instrumental in women gaining the ballot.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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The instrumentals definitely serve as a unifying element.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
The album is split between instrumentals and songs, but the use of samples—often including pitch-shifted voices—and sense of flow make it feel like a single unified work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Even his former nemesis Wiley paid respects, posting a video of one of Ellis's instrumentals with a dove emoji.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
Frontwoman Florence Shaw speaks her poetic lyrics over the band’s hypnotic instrumentals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
Hence, then, in the and why we have instrumental ablatives, or, simply, instrumentals.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Vocabulary lists containing instrumental
Flowers for Algernon
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The Tale of Despereaux
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