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Mr. Futterman occasionally exaggerates his case with over-the-top prose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

It’s very sentimental — which the novel, with its matter-of-fact, if sensually evocative prose, and it’s child’s eye view, is not.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

But his impenetrable prose -- used to avoid committing to any particular course -- and his confidence in unfettered markets and institutions to correct themselves frustrated critics, who believed the US economy needed stronger guardrails.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

Market participants are accustomed to Powell-style prose and lightly scripted press conferences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

The greatest American scientist, the most deft diplomat, the most accomplished prose stylist, the sharpest wit, Franklin defied all the categories by inhabiting them all with such distinction and nonchalant grace.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

It contains drawings and proses which have nothing but a formal, not an illustrative or explanatory, relation to each other.

From Time Magazine Archive

Never mind how the pedagogue proses,   You want not antiquity's stamp; A lip, that such fragrance discloses,   Oh! never should smell of the lamp.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

I held the little beast's head all over the Latin proses for Monday.

From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard

There is a School-board Lady, but, alas, she is next the Warden of St. Jude's, not next the enthusiastic Clergyman, who proses about a Club for Milliners.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892 by Various

I never yawn when he proses, and his daughter does.

From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie

A similar bill prosed in the Senate would change visitation restrictions specifically for nursing homes, although the measure has not yet been placed on the Legislature’s agenda.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2021

He still prosed on, wrapped up in his own eloquence.

From Rainbow Valley by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

In that way the important things of the story may be made to come with the stroke and flash of present reality, instead of being prosed away by the historian and his good grammar.

From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.

He prosed along, however, until the House adjourned for dinner, and Disraeli's opportunity was for the meantime lost.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie

And he had prosed by the hour to this woman about his own griefs and love-troubles!

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

Most of the time all the spectator sees is Spencer Tracy sitting in a rowboat and mumbling to himself, and all he hears is Hemingway's own narrative prosing along the sound track.

From Time Magazine Archive

I well recollect an adventure, the relation of which will set this system in a clearer light than if I were prosing for hours in the abstract.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund

But though a minstrel’s poem it is far from rude, and it is quite free from the ordinary faults of rambling and prosing, such as Chaucer ridiculed in his Geste of Sir Thopas.

From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)

“That tiresome Mr Barnes always keeps you prosing in the vestry for half an hour,” struck in Sophie.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

This prosing satirist, strange to say, in some pastoral poetry, has opened the right vein.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac