tenor
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The gates blocking it, and the security checkpoints along its flanks, will dramatically limit the public’s desire to enter, and change the tenor and experience of a space that should feel porous and inclusive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The festival next May is being marketed as "one of the world's largest shared singing events", with tenor Bocelli appearing on the Saturday, and up to 20,000 choristers appearing on the Sunday.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Still, the habit is in keeping with the book’s paradoxically optimistic tenor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
A lot of this debt is in longer duration assets that may compete with government paper of a similar tenor, say analysts.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bonds include those with tenors of up to 1 year and those with tenors more than 10 years and up to 25 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The sovereign securities include those with tenors of more than 1 year and up to 3 years and those with tenors of more than 25 years as well as inflation-indexed bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
These include sovereign securities with tenors of more than one year and up to three years and those with tenors of more than 10 years and up to 25.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Sovereign issuers like Argentina and Austria have also tapped the market at these tenors.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026
It was easier for Chester to play the ones written for tenors than the ones for sopranos, contraltos, and basses, but he did them all beautifully.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
Vocabulary lists containing tenor
Julius Caesar
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Excerpt from "The Philosophy of Literary Form" by Kenneth Burke
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Music - Introductory
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