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Recent Examples of chants
Marin Scott, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
The Barmy Army chants restart as the England players partly walk over to applaud them.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
On Saturday nights, when the Jewish Sabbath ends, Elia chants the zemirot, the traditional table hymns.
—Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
The entire group chants the name of the triumphant Elio and Clone Elio accepts the applause.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
As the crowd chants largely out of sight, heavy automatic gunfire can be heard for 15 uninterrupted seconds.
—Marin Scott, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
The Barmy Army chants restart as the England players partly walk over to applaud them.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
On Saturday nights, when the Jewish Sabbath ends, Elia chants the zemirot, the traditional table hymns.
—Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
The entire group chants the name of the triumphant Elio and Clone Elio accepts the applause.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chants
Verb
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But in every production, Rafiki sings the very first line in Zulu—my language never changes, and that represents the authenticity of the show.—
Zama Magudulela,
Travel + Leisure,
15 May 2026
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Her series are inevitably female-centric and like the Brontës, who wrote 200 years and a few miles away, her work excavates the drama of daily life and the tension between good and evil that sings below any surface.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
Verb
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The clip, filmed from a few feet away, shows the saxophone player continuing unfazed as the Dalmatian raises its snout and vocalizes in rhythm.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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As the sweetly melodic ballad tapers, a gentle beat kicks in and Carey vocalizes words of religious praise over a syncopated coda for the last two minutes, her five-octave voice punctuating her patented melismatic style.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Those are the choruses of some of the most popular songs by the Cocteau Twins, a band that seemed to come from out of nowhere with its own musical language, and its own deeply original way of using the English language.—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
12 May 2026
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Arias, recitatives and choruses are more like ruminations from the King James Bible, as part of a spiritual journey.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
Verb
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And the Old Trafford crowd roars, while Jason Wilcox and Omar Berrada hug in the directors’ box.—
Ian Irving,
New York Times,
9 May 2026
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Keep an eye on the sky and be ready to move indoors if thunder roars.—
Ahmad Bajjey,
CBS News,
8 May 2026
Noun
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Shakira is no stranger to World Cup anthems.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 May 2026
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There are empowering anthems and devastating love songs.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
6 May 2026
Noun
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But, as with effectively a new group needing to gel, time was always going to be required for heroes to emerge and inspire terrace chants to replace or supplement the ditties to ‘Super Paul Mullin’, ‘White Pele’ (Elliot Lee) et al.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
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The songs, by Randy Newman, are simple but charming little ditties, particularly the ensemble numbers where this makeshift band of misfits express their devotion to one another.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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On the last Unusual Tuesday of April, Zabaglio performed soft electric-indie ballads to a roar of applause as the first act of the night.—
Christopher Buchanan,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
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Devin Archer richly interprets Emile’s romantic ballads, French accent and all, while Cindy Chang brings some honest dignity to Bloody Mary and Anthony Maggio’s Cabel goes far beyond the standard-issue tenor.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2026
Noun
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Scrolling SoundCloud the other week, I was reminded of the Blackberry arguments, email apologies, and voicemail serenades of the Heartbreak Drake era.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
14 May 2026
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Clips from the Pitt-Stanford game spread rapidly on Bluesky, where multiple users captured separate free-throw serenades and posted them individually.—
Ryan Brennan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Chants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chants. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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