as in symphony
a usually large group of musicians playing together
the orchestra will be performing a selection of Beethoven pieces tomorrow night
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Hermlin was performing as a drummer with another ensemble, not his own orchestra.
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Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Photograph by Brandon Patoc The New York Philharmonic is the oldest orchestra in America.
—Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Performing hits from Sinatra’s extensive repertoire and other standards from the Great American Songbook, singer Rick Michel and his 24-piece orchestra will transport audiences to a musical era of yesteryear.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
This reveals microglia as unexpected conductors in the brain's blood pressure orchestra, fine-tuning neuron-glia interactions through astrocyte pruning.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
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Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Photograph by Brandon Patoc The New York Philharmonic is the oldest orchestra in America.
—Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Performing hits from Sinatra’s extensive repertoire and other standards from the Great American Songbook, singer Rick Michel and his 24-piece orchestra will transport audiences to a musical era of yesteryear.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
This reveals microglia as unexpected conductors in the brain's blood pressure orchestra, fine-tuning neuron-glia interactions through astrocyte pruning.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchestra
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Take away the art museums, the symphony, the ballet—what’s left?—
Stephan Rabimov,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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America was, however, mad for symphonies, the more heroic the better, and Martinů found his way into the form.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Back in New York their evenings were spent at the ballet, the philharmonic, the opera.—
Irina Aleksander,
Vogue,
11 Dec. 2024
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The philharmonic then contracted with Tracey Levy of Levy Employment Law to conduct an independent second investigation.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
6 Nov. 2024
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“Orchestra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orchestra. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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