sung
verb
a simple past tense and past participle of sing.
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sung
1 American
[suhng]
/ sʌŋ /
verb
Sung
2
American
[soong]
/ sʊŋ /
Also
Song
noun
sung
1
British
/ sʌŋ /
verb
adjective
Sung
2
British
/ sʊŋ /
noun
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The term “countertenor” dates back to the Elizabethans, for whom it meant the medieval contratenor line that was sung against the generally larger and lower tenor voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The nearly 5-year-old eagle has perched and sung with Shadow, who first paired up with Jackie in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
A new version of Dolly Parton's Jolene is set to be released, with parts of the song sung in Welsh by the legendary country artist.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
"It's such a privilege, it's extraordinary," she said of hearing "hallelujah" sung across the famed avenue.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
How many girls like me, through the ages, have sung these sad songs as they dreamed of freedom?
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
But Sung, Bennett and Miller stayed his order, finding that the California deployment could go forward under an obscure and virtually untested subsection of the law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Kim Il Sung spent decades preparing his son, Kim Jong Il, for power.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
During a panel discussion later in the event, the WSJ Leadership Institute’s Ben Ashwell asked Simile co-founder and CEO Joon Sung Park if we’re all going to die because of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Characters forced to make do either lash out, like raging overreactors on Lee Sung Jin’s petty, brutal “Beef,” or fall into holding patterns, like the unlucky in love leads of Issa Rae’s dramedy “Insecure.”
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Then there was Sung Guo, also called Seneca Gracchus, who fought twelve Roman dragons and sixteen Chinese dragons in the western deserts of China.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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