phrases

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“Rollins hates clichés and signature phrases — ‘licks’ — and refuses to play them,” critic Stanley Crouch wrote in the New Yorker in 2005.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Dixon's fast-paced rhymes helped the songs stand out on the radio, and she became known for phrases such as "We're coming back strong", "M-I-S-T-double-E-Q", "Away we go" and "Enter!"

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Children often learn the order of the planets in our Solar System using quirky memory phrases like "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos."

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

On such tracks as “Frost Bloom” and “Inward Loop” the prepared elements are interwoven into the same phrases, creating a compelling distinction between them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Needing a break from the repetition of singing in his head the first phrases of the fourth song, he asked, “Nali, what is an N’daa and what happens?”

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young