See chant on Wiktionary
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"text": "The crowd at the cricket game began to chant \"Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi\"."
},
{
"text": "At school I learned multiplication by chanting the simple sums, such as \"two twos are four.\""
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