anthem
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Outside the university auditorium, where Machado fielded questions, hundreds of cheering students sang the national anthem and shouted “freedom.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The room pounds their fists on the tables to the bridge of Metallica’s “One,” a harrowing anthem about the horrors of war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
“La Marseillaise,” a war chant that became the national anthem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
These quintessentially parochial quirks are blended with local customs such as singing the Indian national anthem every morning or celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi, a major Hindu festival.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
The Irish band takes a major step forward with its fifth LP, which ranges from sinister goth sounds and reflective ballads to hard-charging anthems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Take a bite out of history: In Part 2 of its series on McGruff the Crime Dog, Slate’s Decoder Ring podcast asks the question: Did a trench-coat-wearing dog’s catchy anti-drug anthems actually work?
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
And they bounce in unison when she plays colourful club anthems like Into You and Break Free.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Mahalia Jackson’s gospel anthems and Harry Belafonte’s interpretations of calypso music took on special relevance for the civil-rights movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The boys like plays, news bulletins, martial anthems.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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