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aria
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aria as in:  sang an aria

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    The mother who painted the walls of their Chicago homes the color of flowers; who planted tomatoes and roses in her garden; sang arias; practiced solos on her son's drum set; boogied along with the Soul Train dancers; glued travel posters on her kitchen wall with Karo syrup; herded her kids weekly to the library, to public concerts, to museums; wore a button on her lapel that said "Feed the People Not the Pentagon"; who never went beyond the ninth grade.  (source)
    arias = dramatic vocal solos
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    When the aria was over she turned off the radio and put two rice balls into a blue bowl.  (source)
    aria = dramatic vocal solo
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    A symphony of grinding, a chorus of popping, an aria of exploding, and finally, the sad clapping of hard metal cutting into soft trees.  (source)
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    He would put on his best clothes, shave, and play his favorite opera arias on the gramophone.  (source)
    arias = dramatic vocal songs
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    My last view through the round window was of Vlad uncorking the medicine bottle and dumping the entire contents into the soup while belting out an opera aria.  (source)
    aria = dramatic vocal solo
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    He would never hear the nonsensical chatter of his children or thrill to the arias of La Bohlme.†  (source)
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    My next step was listening to the German and the Italian arias.†  (source)
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    Their faces shone from paintings; their voices rode the long and lovely notes of arias; they descended to capture the bodies and souls of young children; they sang and perched in the trees; they were in the surf and the streams; they inspired dancing; and they were the right and holy combination of words in poetry.†  (source)
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    Only chants, songs, arias, speeches, cries, cheers, accusations, shrieks.†  (source)
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    He said that he had traveled all over the world when he was young and that he had studied opera in Milan and in Buenos Aires and as they rolled through the countryside he sang arias and gestured with great vigor.†  (source)
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    The walls were papered with dated, now faded murals of Venice, Rome and Florence; the softly piped-in music was predominantly operatic arias and tarantellas, and the lighting indirect with pockets of shadows.†  (source)
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    The women I knew back in New York grumbled from down low in the gut, in messy plaints, everything spoken in 2 A.M. arias.†  (source)
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    Most of them were arias from Italian and French operas—Verdi and Rossini and Gounod—but there was one record that I remember just made me nearly swoon, I loved it so.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    He slid down to the carpeted floor and watched his mother, whose name was Aria, leapfrog her way across the room and back.  (source)
    Aria = a name in this novel
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    Aria always worried Ella would find out about Meredith and never forgive her for keeping the secret.  (source)
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    Aria Montgomery burrowed her face in her best friend Alison DiLaurentis's lawn.  (source)
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    Aria brushed away her pink-striped hair and breathed in the warm early-evening air.  (source)
    Aria = a name in this novel
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    "Not it," Spencer, Emily, and Aria quickly followed.  (source)
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    Aria frowned, taking a seat on a lavender floor pillow.  (source)
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    Aria shrugged and pulled the stuffed pig out of her bag.  (source)
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    "It's not funny," Aria snapped, whipping her head around to face Emily.  (source)
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    When she heard the door slam, Aria opened her eyes.  (source)
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    As for Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna, something shifted in them, too.  (source)
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    Trouble was Aria wasn't sure who Aria was.  (source)
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    Trouble was Aria wasn't sure who Aria was.  (source)
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    And Aria fell in love ...a few times, actually.  (source)
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