rhyme
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Month after month, spies secretly met in a secure compound to discuss rhyme schemes, structural forms and heroic odes.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 12, 2026
Its name is inspired by the nursery rhyme Old Mother Goose, reflecting the idea of an ancient goose emerging from the mud of a fossil deposit.
From Science Daily β Jul. 11, 2026
Their lead single “Fabienk” is studded with hair-trigger riffs — if you can even call them that — that mix the playful nursery rhyme melodies of Battles with the no-wave drone of Sonic Youth.
From Salon β Jun. 5, 2026
But the leverage dynamics rhyme strongly, and Shin’s entire intellectual project has been to arrest leverage booms before they tip over.
From MarketWatch β Jun. 4, 2026
Gramma Liz dressed them identically and even made their names rhyme.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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All she remembered from her early childhood in Arizona were snippets of the nursery rhymes “Did You Ever See a Lassie?” and “The Bear Went Over the Mountain.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 7, 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
“Altruist’s mission to make financial advice more accessible, more affordable, and help advisers scale their practices, that very much rhymes with what we’re trying to do here at Vanguard,” Ramji said.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 26, 2026
The problem with the 2030s is that it rhymes with the 1930s, which was a horrible period for geopolitical crises.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 26, 2026
Dad would pet my hair, sing me French nursery rhymes, and tell funny stories until I fell asleep.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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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
When they accepted the award, Montenegro named a dozen Venezuelan musicians in a rhymed speech and urged his countrymen to keep their heads up.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 12, 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
The Shafer Commission's report rhymed with research done at the time by similar bodies in France and the U.K.
From Salon β Sep. 1, 2023
She remembered that Emily Dickinson’s poems hardly ever rhymed.
From "Ivy Aberdeenβs Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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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
He uses a pair of Meta Ray-Ban glasses, with most of his videos showing his glasses-eye view of walking down the street as he greets passers-by with rhyming phrases.
From BBC β Sep. 12, 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
Cheerful illustrations accompanied by rhyming text enumerate little acts of love over the course of a day, from early-morning wake-ups to indulging requests for one more bedtime lullaby.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 23, 2026
The mother’s voice is soft as she recites the rhyming lines.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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