quartet

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Recent Examples of quartet In November, the quartet will then take the trek overseas for a month in Europe, setting up shop in Germany, Italy, Spain, France and more before closing out Dec. 14 in Athens. Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2025 Hollywood is banking on this year’s quartet of comic book offerings to revive the hit-or-miss superhero genre. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025 The anchoring quartet have Bridget’s back no matter what, and especially when the romance ensues with first Woodall’s character and then Ejiofor’s. Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025 The quartet’s hostility persuaded Amazon to quit, making the jobs vanish. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quartet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quartet
Noun
  • Seated along the sidewalk outside Cafe Tropical, the singer, dressed in dark-wash denim and kitten heels, orders a Diet Coke and a trio of the Cuban cafe’s signature pastelitos.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
  • That includes Amazon and a trio of other Club names: Microsoft, Meta Platforms , and Alphabet .
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • With injuries depleting Miami more than at any time all season, Erik Spoelstra used a starting quintet that hadn’t played a single minute together — Adebayo, Kevin Love, Tyler Herro, Terry Rozier and Alec Burks.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Now, the Australian group holds steady with its four smashes, while Queen ups its count to a quintet of champions.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Charlie Gurke, a baritone saxophone specialist who also plays tenor and alto, is the youngest member of the sextet and latest to join.
    Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the sextet of localized blazes—the Palisades fire, the Eaton fire, the Hurst fire, the Sunset fire, the Lidia fire, and the Kenneth fire—blurred in the public mind and in the sprawl of destruction into one great undifferentiated inferno.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Pictures showed the duo soaking up the moment in Hawaii, where the rapper was present kicking off the inaugural Hawaii Fest.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 5 Mar. 2025
  • In over 14 years of collaboration with Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, the duo created groundbreaking architectural landmarks in Beijing and Shanghai.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • These people found one another at the civil rights movement’s apogee, and their septet — Black and white, men and women — was a union that advertised integration’s frictionless possibility.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Building on her long-running septet, the New York City flutist and composer started setting poetry to music.
    Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The project marks just the 19th K-pop album to top the chart, as well as the octet’s sixth title to reach the chart’s summit.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Ever since her husband died from a bee sting, the matriarch has smoothly guided her octet of rapscallions through proposals, scandals, and balloon disasters.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 14 June 2024
Noun
  • On the property, a rousing troupe led the people with the sound of drums in the air and the carrying of statues representing Hindu spirits in what’s known as the Ogoh-Ogoh parade.
    Essence, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
  • This year, the ceremony will feature performances by Seiwa Bunraku, a traditional puppetry troupe from Kumamoto Prefecture and tap dancer Kazunori Kumagai.
    Jessie Beck, AFAR Media, 3 Mar. 2025

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“Quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quartet. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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