rhyme
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Without breaking from the traditional techniques of rhyme, meter and storytelling, he had created a fresh American idiom, grounded in everyday speech.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 13, 2026
It’s a false rhyme — a blatant false rhyme.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 2, 2026
She added that they’ve learned recently that some newer applications have been processed, but there “doesn’t appear to be any rhyme or reason to the order they are processing these applications.”
From MarketWatch β Oct. 30, 2026
But he says it's also difficult to account for the sales, which appear random with "no rhyme or reason."
From BBC β Aug. 15, 2026
“I’ve got nothing,” she said, before remembering it was supposed to be a rhyme and adding, “too. How ’bout taking Boo?”
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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“That rhymes with history,” said Kevin Gordon, head of macro research and strategy at Charles Schwab, noting that markets tend to do better when election results are known.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 4, 2026
“The parents learn the value of those interactions with their children. The importance of spending time truly talking, not just directive talk … but open-ended questions, using songs and rhymes, storytelling, descriptive language.”
From Slate β Sep. 5, 2026
But he has turned his remixes of classic nursery rhymes into a global touring sensation.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 2, 2026
The writing team researched medieval songs and kids’ rhymes to develop the tunes.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 16, 2026
At first she invented rhymes about the tundra and sang them to tunes she had learned at school.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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The projections of period décor were charming, as was the slightly antiquated rhymed English text of the titles, but the undirected singers missed the energy of a fully realized performance.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 20, 2026
It was cheerful and rhymed but lacked oomph.
From Los Angeles Times β Jan. 3, 2025
In 2002, he even made fun of the situation with the self-deprecating I Will Talk And Hollywood Will Listen, in which the title rhymed with the lyric "Mr Spielberg look just what you're missing".
From BBC β Dec. 15, 2024
There are, in fact, some rather disturbing rhymed couplets, if you will.
From Salon β Jul. 30, 2024
Guyard the Green, who fancied himself a singer, diddled a harp and gave them a verse about tying lions' tails in knots, parts of which rhymed.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Warmer seas help spawn Pacific hurricanes, which have already battered Hawai‘i this year. As I write this, rhyming storms named Polo and Nolo threaten to bring flooding to Hawai‘i and Mexico.
From Slate β Sep. 28, 2026
One story is told in rhyming couplets and another is conveyed entirely in images of paw and footprints.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 29, 2026
MS Now‘s Jacob Soboroff played Mamdani the rhyming boast that begin’s “My mayor’s Muslim, my bagel’s Jewish.”
From Salon β Jun. 14, 2026
Both books tell a tale about an adventure in a woodland full of animals, with the story told in rhyming couplets.
From BBC β Feb. 6, 2026
A group of Amity girls in yellow and red sit in a circle on the cafeteria floor, playing some kind of hand-slapping game involving a rhyming song.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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