lied
1 Americanverb
noun
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lieder
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lied
Borrowed into English from German around 1850–55
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In the ad, Arthur says her daughter has "lied her entire life."
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Judge Underhill said that Diamantis had lied on the stand and called the evidence of his guilt “overwhelming. Period.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
In court documents, prosecutors said Rush had also lied about his educational and professional background before joining the CIA, including a false claim that he had been a US military pilot.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
He was found to have lied in libel action he had brought against The Star newspaper, in which he was awarded £500,000 in damages.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“My sister worked for her. She was all right until she thought I’d lied to her...”
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
And lieder, folk and church music alone, no matter how immaculately sung, rarely turn artists into stars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
The pianist Irwin Gage accompanies Heynis on a disc of German lieder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Through it all his tastes have been eclectic; he’s as likely to take on lieder as he is the Great American Songbook and the jazz of Bill Evans.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
He was accepted as a choral scholar, and began to learn about opera and lieder while studying archaeology and anthropology.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
She had risked part of her fellowship money to sing before an audience that knew the words of most German lieder by heart, and she worried that few people would even bother to show up.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
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