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as in lectures
to give a formal often extended talk on a subject
an English professor who loves to descant on his beloved Shakespeare
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variants
also discants
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as in madrigals
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as in observations
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Today’s successful downtowns rely on a mix of ingredients, said Steven Falk, the former city manager of Lafayette, who’s served as an interim city executive in Oakland and Richmond and who lectures at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.
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Bad teams are given mechanisms to recover, not lectures about bootstraps.
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The ballroom at the Westin Perimeter North is packed with people sporadically breaking out in Rick Jackson chants from time to time.
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As the crowd chants largely out of sight, heavy automatic gunfire can be heard for 15 uninterrupted seconds.
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Paired with bubbly disco grooves and chant-along choruses, the band became gay icons overnight.
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Notorious Knicks villains such as Trae Young, Joel Embiid and CJ McCollum received similarly contentious choruses in recent postseasons.
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The researchers then tested whether the theory could explain the observations.
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Using proxies for past weather and more recent observations, studies confirm that climate is warming.
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The role required fluency in at least three languages—and Blunt, by her own admission, just about speaks Spanish.
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Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR's Ukraine Correspondent Joanna Kakissis about the overnight attack in Kyiv, which comes on the heels of Ukraine's drone assaults in Moscow.
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Chaka Khan sings her heart out at HarbourView Equity Partners’ signature concert series, Las’ Set, in Cannes, France on June 25.
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Confidence in God as ever-present Love sings through the ages in this hymn.
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The machine’s repertoire included answers to 12 riddles, passages from books, and laughing, crying and kissing sounds, as well as arias sung in both male and female voices—all feats that Edison’s phonograph would one day be able to accomplish by recording and playing back the human voice.
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Notable coloratura arias Coloratura arias are found in the works of Mozart, George Frideric Handel, and many other classical composers.
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Her remarks come amid mounting allegations that military restrictions slowed aid deliveries and prevented civilians—and in some cases rescue crews—from getting to critical areas during the early phase of the emergency.
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After the president's remarks, the night will end with a massive fireworks display.
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“Descants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descants. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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