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ode

[ohd] / oʊd /


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In Ms. Garmus’s case, it yields an affecting ode to poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

For the team behind "Onwards and Sideways," the film was essentially an ode to life.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Parton was about six years old when she wrote her first song: Little Tiny Tasseltop, an ode to her favourite doll and its corn-silk hair.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

An ode to the ecstasy of Scrabble: Do you love hearing someone talk about something they’re really passionate about and know very well, in great intimate detail?

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Jalil told her the story of Queen Gauhar Shad, who had raised the famous minarets as her loving ode to Herat back in the fifteenth century.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Indiana is in many ways a liminal state, the place you pass through between scruffy Cleveland and business-like Chicago, with little to inspire romantic odes to home.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

Instead of odes to the old cabin home in the mountains or the little church in the wildwood, Busby sang about the loneliness and alienation of life in the nation’s capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

It’s a grand work operating on the largest scale, with a symphony orchestra, choirs and odes to saints rendered in many languages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

Football "cannot be boosted by singing odes or telling stories", he noted.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025

And Rabbi Yehuda, who still writes to this day beautiful odes to God in His Glory.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz




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