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chanting

verb

present participle of chant

as in singing

to utter in musical or drawn out tones the frustrated crowd at the rock concert started to chant, "We want the show to start!"

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as in vocalizing

to produce musical sounds with the voice monks chanting fervently at matins

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Recent Examples of chanting Pupils clustered outside the doors of several schools in Paris and other cities in the morning hours, brandishing placards and megaphones and chanting slogans, and marches were planned later in the day. — Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026 Some protesters nevertheless broke through police cordons, chanting slogans against Modi and election authorities before being detained. — Sheikh Saaliq, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026 Naturally, questions about Boone’s job status resurfaced after Wednesday night’s 4-3 loss in the Bronx, a game that ended with some chanting fans in the stands calling for his job. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026 Juszczyk has been doing a version of that celebration throughout his career in San Francisco in response to 49ers fans chanting his nickname after catches or other big plays. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 Hundreds of Timberline High School students stood on the sidewalk facing their school Wednesday morning, chanting. — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 7 Oct. 2026 Rimer runs Love Supreme Projects, a yoga and chanting studio in London—and both Sciò and Martone have been part of her practice for years. — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026 The rest of the story — the rest of why the crowd was chanting for him — could be explained by everything else, though. — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2026 Students were recorded chanting against the morality police and political repression. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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intoning

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When reading Blake in a Harlem apartment in 1948, Ginsberg was struck with a vision of the Romantic poet, intoning his own verse in his own voice.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
The news site Deadspin took clips of different anchors intoning the same words and laid them over one another to make a hellish cacophony.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026

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