as in chorus
an organized group of singers joined the choir for next year

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Recent Examples of choir In our woeful orthography, choir, and liar rhyme, daughter and laughter don’t, and knickknack has four—count them, four—entirely useless K’s. Gabe Henry, Time, 15 Apr. 2025 There are four choirs at Westmont Junior High School. Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025 Not quite conducting the orchestra, more like joining the choir. Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 The school also has smaller chamber groups including bass ensemble, flute ensemble and clarinet choir. Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for choir
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  • Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty Images Oil giant BP is bracing itself for a shareholder backlash at its annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday, with a chorus of disgruntled investors planning to voice their concerns over the firm’s green strategy U-turn.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
  • An orchestra, a chorus, a jazz big band, a marching band—these are complex macroorganisms whose inner workings require formidable feats of interactive precision, all of which depend on information encoded in a written score.
    Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Choir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choir. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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