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Recent Examples of refrain
The most common refrain was a simmering concern about the upcoming anniversary show: There are only a few hundred seats in Studio 8H, and people were nervously awaiting their invitations.
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Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
Expert Theories Behind Low Reading Scores In what may sound like an all-too-familiar refrain, the pandemic likely plays a role here.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 4 Feb. 2025
The call to action, which began circulating on social media last week, encouraged immigrants to skip work, keep their children home from school and refrain from shopping Monday.
—Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
Frustrated by the surge of callers asking them to listen to demo tapes, the group recreated these messages for the song’s intro and outro, and turned their answering machine’s greeting into its sardonic refrain.
—Brendan Hay, SPIN, 28 Jan. 2025
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Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
Expert Theories Behind Low Reading Scores In what may sound like an all-too-familiar refrain, the pandemic likely plays a role here.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 4 Feb. 2025
The call to action, which began circulating on social media last week, encouraged immigrants to skip work, keep their children home from school and refrain from shopping Monday.
—Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
Frustrated by the surge of callers asking them to listen to demo tapes, the group recreated these messages for the song’s intro and outro, and turned their answering machine’s greeting into its sardonic refrain.
—Brendan Hay, SPIN, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Refrain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refrain. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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