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also quartette
as in trio
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Recent Examples of quartet
This is the quartet that headlines the Royals’ bullpen for 2025.
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Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2025
Baker’s Oscar quartet is pure and one for the ages, an achievement without an asterisk.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2025
That quartet has spent the past few weeks getting acclimated with the roster and implementing Hetherman’s defense that plans to be aggressive at the line of scrimmage and prioritize forcing turnovers while minimizing big plays and communication breakdowns.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
Few musical rites of passage are as exhilarating as the big comeback album, and Amor Elefante’s Amigas finds the quartet, now with new member Lucila Pivetta on bass, beaming with joy at the chance of reconnecting.
—Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025
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Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2025
Baker’s Oscar quartet is pure and one for the ages, an achievement without an asterisk.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2025
That quartet has spent the past few weeks getting acclimated with the roster and implementing Hetherman’s defense that plans to be aggressive at the line of scrimmage and prioritize forcing turnovers while minimizing big plays and communication breakdowns.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
Few musical rites of passage are as exhilarating as the big comeback album, and Amor Elefante’s Amigas finds the quartet, now with new member Lucila Pivetta on bass, beaming with joy at the chance of reconnecting.
—Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quartet
Noun
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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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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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With injuries depleting Miami more than at any time all season, Erik Spoelstra used a starting quintet that hadn’t played a single minute together — Adebayo, Kevin Love, Tyler Herro, Terry Rozier and Alec Burks.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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Now, the Australian group holds steady with its four smashes, while Queen ups its count to a quintet of champions.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 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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Lou is one-half of the architect duo behind Good Hot, the sauna operation in Richmond, CA.—
Sylvie Florman,
Vogue,
5 Mar. 2025
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In over 14 years of collaboration with Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, the duo created groundbreaking architectural landmarks in Beijing and Shanghai.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
5 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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The project marks just the 19th K-pop album to top the chart, as well as the octet’s sixth title to reach the chart’s summit.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
16 Jan. 2025
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Ever since her husband died from a bee sting, the matriarch has smoothly guided her octet of rapscallions through proposals, scandals, and balloon disasters.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
14 June 2024
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On the property, a rousing troupe led the people with the sound of drums in the air and the carrying of statues representing Hindu spirits in what’s known as the Ogoh-Ogoh parade.—
Essence,
Essence,
3 Mar. 2025
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This year, the ceremony will feature performances by Seiwa Bunraku, a traditional puppetry troupe from Kumamoto Prefecture and tap dancer Kazunori Kumagai.—
Jessie Beck,
AFAR Media,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quartet. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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