tenor
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They view the inflation spurt as the immediate issue that bonds will continue to fret over, keeping long tenor yields elevated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
But he worries that the tenor and toxicity of social media commentary is putting women in particular off politics.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
Digging deeper, however, unearths a defensive tenor to Monday’s rally, which was paced by megacap tech, healthcare, and industrial stocks that was paired with a big bid for U.S.
From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026
“Chalamet clearly wasn’t in the audience when we opened the Metropolitan Opera’s season with ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,’” added the tenor Miles Mykkanen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
He took to wearing a leather jacket and a porkpie hat like legendary tenor man Lester Young, joined a neighborhood R&B band, and Ma had increasing difficulty in getting him to go to school.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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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