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Recent Examples of octet
The octet must race around to bash open crates, carry bombs back to their homebase and launch them at Bowser before time runs out.
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
In the end, Houston, Alabama, Texas A&M, Oregon, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Creighton and San Diego State signed on to be the Players Era’s inaugural octet.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2024
In July, the octet dropped ATE, earning its fifth consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2024
But the English-language track does act as an introduction to the octet's latest artistic foray.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
In the end, Houston, Alabama, Texas A&M, Oregon, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Creighton and San Diego State signed on to be the Players Era’s inaugural octet.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2024
In July, the octet dropped ATE, earning its fifth consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2024
But the English-language track does act as an introduction to the octet's latest artistic foray.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for octet
Noun
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That quartet helped the Packers reach the NFC Championship Game two straight years, and earn the NFC’s No. 1 seed in 2021.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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After a short stint in the quartet A4 during the late Nineties, Wheesung (who is also sometimes recorded as Realslow) kicked off his solo career in 2002 with his debut album, Like a Movie.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The quintet is averaging 69.5 points per game, the highest among major conferences.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Mar. 2025
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Here’s how the quintet fared during their Chicago tenures.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2025
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Even more notably, all of the band’s current wins appear inside the highest half of the list, as the rockers rack up a trio of top five bestsellers.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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That record marked their first full-length album since 2013’s Mosquito, with the trio pursuing solo albums and other projects in the intervening years.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar. 2025
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Under the pact, the duo will develop and produce series through their company Midwest Livestock, Inc.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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The dynamic duo charmed everyone in their path, including two Russian models who were offering caviar bites from IKRAA.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025
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Over the years, Gabe has starred in several comedy troupes onstage and landed roles in TV and movies.—
Emy LaCroix,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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For Johnson, the decision to create a troupe of actors who would play different characters throughout was both practical and philosophical.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
12 Mar. 2025
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But this momentary interruption in the normal order hardly matters because the ensemble is so comfortably aligned in the theatrical universe that Godwin has created.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Naturally, the star—who just released her seventh studio album, Mayhem, earlier this month—brought a striking fashion ensemble for the outing.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Octet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/octet. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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