The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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So, too, did all of his department heads on their own fiefdoms and the oddball band Tune-Yards on the score, a cacophony of circus oompahs, mouth harps and kazoos.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
A pair of harps, placed antiphonally in boxes at opposite sides of the stage, plus a theorbo, offer an otherworldly descant, as do the sounds of the celesta and chimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Ernesto Rey and his cowboys awoke in their hammocks before dawn, to the percussive harps of llanera music on their phones and Jupiter visible in the sky.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
That tempo, in part, is set by Bieniemy — whose boisterous style of coaching harps on details and demands excellence out of players.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
I heard her saying to me, in the candlelit darkness of my bedchamber, “‘By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and wept....On the willows there, we hung up our harps….
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
