as in hymns
a religious song
fervently sang an anthem of praise to the Lord
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Recent Examples of anthems
Meanwhile, singing anthems at England national team matches is nothing new for English supporters.
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Amna Subhan,
AJC.com,
30 June 2026
As the anthems played ahead of Curaçao’s first-ever World Cup match, Advocaat stood on the touchline and wiped away tears.
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Kevin Kruse,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Hell of a town as one of our old anthems says, one that needs to be reworked these days.
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Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
27 June 2026
Pre-show festivities kicked off the event with DJs playing hits from their homeland and classic party anthems from the United States.
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Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
25 June 2026
In the summer of 2022, Amanda Petrusich was reporting a Profile of Metallica, whose heavy-metal anthems draw on the band members’ intimate familiarity with loss.
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Willing Davidson,
New Yorker,
23 June 2026
The show features timeless works from influential artists whose songs have long served as anthems for social change and perseverance.
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Wcco Staff,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
Pop anthems gave way to house beats.
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Sari Kamin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 June 2026
Singer Bradley Nowell drunk-steered his band through sordid anthems, crashing through references to classic ska and dancehall songs, shouting out Rudimentary Peni and Geto Boys, and re-setting the murder ballads and drug sprees of outlaw country in suburban California.
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Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
Amna Subhan,
AJC.com,
30 June 2026
As the anthems played ahead of Curaçao’s first-ever World Cup match, Advocaat stood on the touchline and wiped away tears.
—
Kevin Kruse,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Hell of a town as one of our old anthems says, one that needs to be reworked these days.
—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
27 June 2026
Pre-show festivities kicked off the event with DJs playing hits from their homeland and classic party anthems from the United States.
—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
25 June 2026
In the summer of 2022, Amanda Petrusich was reporting a Profile of Metallica, whose heavy-metal anthems draw on the band members’ intimate familiarity with loss.
—
Willing Davidson,
New Yorker,
23 June 2026
The show features timeless works from influential artists whose songs have long served as anthems for social change and perseverance.
—
Wcco Staff,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
Pop anthems gave way to house beats.
—
Sari Kamin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 June 2026
Singer Bradley Nowell drunk-steered his band through sordid anthems, crashing through references to classic ska and dancehall songs, shouting out Rudimentary Peni and Geto Boys, and re-setting the murder ballads and drug sprees of outlaw country in suburban California.
—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anthems
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As mourners talked quietly, nursery rhymes were interspersed with traditional gospel hymns.
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One version sings hymns to a mythic nation always free, always just, always brave, always chosen.
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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.
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Paul drove into Wilkes-Barre from Princeton on Christmas Day after the chapel service and dropped his bags at a forlorn motor lodge on Public Square—Christmas carols dragging at slow speed on its sound system—and swung by my parents.
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That's4Entertainment's Christmas Con 2026 will take place at the New Jersey Expo Center in Edison, New Jersey, from December 11-13, and its halls will be decked to the gills with carols, tree lightings and sweet treats.
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“Anthems.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anthems. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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