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Recent Examples of busker
Although digital payments have helped buskers make up for a decline in cash tips, performers are still struggling.
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Evie Steele, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2025
Her vision of brutally honest modern soul fits folk and pop punk in its frame; this is license for the Canadian YouTube busker, Usher protégé, and sometime wild boy to access all those parts of himself.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 14 July 2025
Our man is an accountant skipping out on a day of work who winds up in a busy square and, inexplicably, begins to dance to the beat of a drumming busker.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 June 2025
That is being followed by the 16th Street Summer Kickoff on May 31 and June 1, with the IFSC World Speed Climbing World Cup; the 16th Street Grand Bazaar, featuring local crafts, clothing and food; the Skyline Beer Garden; and bands, buskers and art installations up and down the corridor.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for busker
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However, Minaj’s decision was met with pushback from more than 91,000 critics who signed a petition to deport the 43-year-old performer to Trinidad and Tobago, where she was born and raised before relocating to the Bronx.—
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By night, Storrie, then in a black satin Giuliva Heritage ensemble with a watch and diamonds by Chanel, landed on the cobblestone driveway at Chateau Marmont for Chanel’s Coco Crush campaign launch celebration, headlined by Gracie Abrams and performer Lily Allen.—
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Johnson, a 54-year-old entertainer who hosts gospel brunches and soul nights in Inglewood according to his social media, did not respond to messages or a letter left at his home.—
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Over the course of 120 shows, the entertainer’s gross ticket sales topped more than $100 million.—
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Honey, played by Buddy Dalton, is a trouper—an older pooch unfazed by the lights and audience.—
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The pair have been good, loyal troupers while the S.S. Monfort caught fire, then sank.—
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“Busker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/busker. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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