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Recent Examples of trills
Brad Shoup, Pitchfork, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
The temperature plunges; Reilly’s trills harden into an Old World dirge.
—Brad Shoup, Pitchfork, 24 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trills
chants
Verb
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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
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The Barmy Army chants restart as the England players partly walk over to applaud them.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
21 Dec. 2025
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“Trills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trills. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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