strum
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"I've wanted to take up the guitar ever since I seen my granda play. I was only six or seven when I started trying to strum his guitar."
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025
Worries escalated as this new cohort of generative AI tools threatened the livelihoods of people who write, draw, strum or code for a living.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023
They strum and sing together in her kitchen and in the park, and she offers frank notes on his songs, the shared experience of making music allowing them to somehow traverse oceans and continents.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2023
She briefly began to strum her guitar again before hastily exiting the stage.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2023
It’s only a few notes, but mixed with the soft rush of the wind and the smoke upon it, I hear...the strum of a distant guitar, and laughter.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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