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Recent Examples of intoningWhen 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,
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intoning
chanting
Verb
Williams was placed on a stretcher and wheeled off the court, where the Thunder faithful were chanting his name.
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Scott Thompson OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
26 Oct. 2026
Around her, an ecstatic crowd was dancing and chanting in celebration of the former union leader’s reelection.
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Constance Malleret,
Christian Science Monitor,
26 Oct. 2026