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rhyme

[rahym] / raΙͺm /


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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 ● 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 ● 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 ● 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 ● Jun. 4, 2026

I giggle at my little rhyme as he snarls at me.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

Dixon's fast-paced rhymes helped the songs stand out on the radio, and she became known for phrases such as "We're coming back strong", "M-I-S-T-double-E-Q", "Away we go" and "Enter!"

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes, as the maxim has it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Not only does she talk, but she recites venerable nursery rhymes, backward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Like amateur detectives, we learn alongside them as they click around pages about Sumerian devils, Catholic saints and the origin of the nursery rhymes “London Bridge” and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

“And two rhymes this time! Penny old girl, you have outdone yourself.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

There, one song evoked a musical conception he had imagined but never achieved—“it dealt with space, and a logic that rhymed and was almost obtuse,” Mr. Batiste once told me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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 ● 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 ● 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 ● Sep. 1, 2023

"So use Joe. Doe, roe, buffalo," she rhymed.

From "How the GarcΓ­a Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

One story is told in rhyming couplets and another is conveyed entirely in images of paw and footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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 ● Jun. 14, 2026

Until we see persistent, continual job losses over a long period of time across the entire economy, the safe bet is that history is simply rhyming.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

Both books tell a tale about an adventure in a woodland full of animals, with the story told in rhyming couplets.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

“Perhaps I shall write some verse, as well. I rather liked the sound of those rhyming quatrains....”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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