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slur
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slur
Music
a. a performance or execution of a melodic interval of two or more notes in a part
b. the curved line (⌣ or ⌢) indicating this


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His challenge to the entertainment industry to curtail racial slurs is to be commended.
Two Lebanese FedEx drivers won $61 million in a discrimination lawsuit they filed after a manager harassed them over two years by calling them "terrorists," "camel jockeys" and other racial slurs.
Here, Mozart inconsistently applies slurs over broken chords, only taking the time to write them in measure 11; the consistent texture implies that slurring and over holding would occur throughout the harmonic accompaniment of these measures.
 
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