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opera
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    She has lived in this city her whole life. She can speak two languages. She can sing an opera.  (source)
    opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    That sweet little Donna Correlli was booed off the stage when she tried to sing opera.  (source)
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    The opera music was very loud now Flora looked down at the hand that was on her arm.  (source)
    opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
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    He was a murderer who terrorized the opera house for years before kidnapping a young singer and trying to force her to be the love he was denied.  (source)
    opera = (used for) classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    How do you manage to be best friends with Daisy without liking space operas?†  (source)
    operas = classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    Frank Tinker put his operatic gifts to work as Prince Leander of Pantoland.†  (source)
    operatic = relating to classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    "They are sounding the retreat," he says operatically.†  (source)
    operatically = in a manner that relates to classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    Even the opera singer has packed it in for the night.  (source)
    opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
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    She's never seen a bandit; she's thinking of the ones in operas.†  (source)
    operas = classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    He was whistling along to an operatic melody that crackled from the radio, winning a smile from Peter.†  (source)
    operatic = relating to classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    How forgiven I felt, for that instant — how blessed, how filled with grace, as if time had rolled backwards and my dry old wooden cane had burst operatically into flower.†  (source)
    operatically = in a manner that relates to classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera.  (source)
    opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    They went to plays and operas and concerts in the parks, listened to string quartets and piano recitals in office-building lobbies, attended movie screenings, and visited museums.†  (source)
    operas = classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    Besides, Aphrodite thinks you're some kinda soap-opera star or something.†  (source)
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    King's lip curled down in some imitation of soap-opera bravado, but his chin trembled.†  (source)
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    I felt like those characters in soap operas who have an evil twin.†  (source)
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    People think it's such a hard read, but it's really just a soap opera with lots of characters, people falling in love, fighting for love, dying for love.†  (source)
    soap opera = a television or radio program that typically runs for many years and dramatizes the lives of a group of characters.
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    Our army, which already had a lot of strange side businesses, like factories making cornflakes and fertilizers, had started producing soap operas.†  (source)
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    He wasn't a soap opera star at all, but a head-and-neck surgeon, though I kept thinking of him as some one named Armand in some steamy soap set on a tropical island.†  (source)
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    Normally, the newsfeeds didn't interrupt everyone's interactive sitcoms and soap operas unless something really major had happened.†  (source)
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    Dorm sports results, soap opera story lines, city politics.†  (source)
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    When I'd dropped in, the Russian soap operas were back to playing on their TV while Aleksandr slept in front of them.†  (source)
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    I try not to make a big soap opera out of the shark attack.†  (source)
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    Anyway, what's he supposed to do all day, watch soap operas?†  (source)
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    Also, there is famous soap opera in Russia, Winter Cherry—well, hard to explain.†  (source)
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    That night, they watch soap operas together on the living room sofa.†  (source)
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