sight-read
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of sight-read
First recorded in 1900–05
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Luckily, a career detour, a shorter haircut or a new diet don’t define her essence; she still knows how to sight-read without restraint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
He can sight-read multisyllabic words, but he can’t always figure out why a character in a story acted the way they did.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2020
In the last years of her life, when she had macular degeneration, it was sad because she could never sight-read in that same way that she could when I was a child.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
In “Yesterday Tomorrow,” from 2018, singers sight-read along as a computer gradually, in a different pattern each performance, transforms the score of the Beatles’ “Yesterday” into “Tomorrow,” from the musical “Annie.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2019
They could not help him sight-read a new tune from scratch.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
For 15-year-old violinist Emily James, sight-reading the notes and memorising techniques have also translated to increased ability in the classroom.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
And I’ve got … a drummer who’s sight-reading, who’s never played it before.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
"In this exam: She needs to play three pieces by memory, two pieces read music, technique requirements in major, minor scales, ear training, sight-reading, rhythm clap back, listening and playback and etc."
From Fox News ● Sep. 5, 2021
When she entered NYU and had her first big audition, she botched her sight-reading despite years of practice, setting her on a different course — to teach English as a second language.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020
Sitting at Robbie’s upright piano, I was quick to pick up the scales—that osmosis thing was real—and I threw myself into filling out the sight-reading work sheets she gave me.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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