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verse

[vurs] / vɜrs /


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This reworking of Rein Me In, from Fender's third studio album, the Mercury Prize-winning People Watching, features an extra verse about the breakdown of a relationship from a female perspective, from Dean.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

The ultra-catchy pop-rock confection “Divine Intervention” has a verse about seeing someone wearing a sandwich board that predicts the end of the world as billionaires run for cover.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

“That first verse fell right off the bone.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

Dripping with sarcastic self-confidence, it has hooks within hooks, not to mention a guest verse from BTS star J-Hope.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

And then everybody got the idea, and it became a sort of song with a verse of “Please, Ms. Washington” and a chorus of “Please, please, please.”

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

McFadden directly sampled the “Megamix” electro beat on “Storm,” from “The Audience’s Listening,” prefacing the drop with alien sonics before Edan and Mr. Lif deliver their rap verses.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Iranian leaders used Quran verses to greet foreign delegations, signaling perseverance to allies and implicit warnings to regional competitors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

A now-famous blond woman of about 25 at a fast-food drive-through: “They have bible verses on the bottom of their cup!”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

During a feast where guests were expected to recite poetry, he reportedly became embarrassed because he did not know any songs or verses to perform.

From Science Daily May 17, 2026

When his father started to read from Proverbs, Turner was surprised at how many verses about rebellious children he had been able to collect on such short notice.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

But by now, head coach Didier Deschamps has his players well versed in sang froid.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

I am more versed in my deficits than my strengths these days.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

Ukraine's success in drone warfare has attracted the attention of rich Gulf states that have been targeted with the same types of Iranian-designed drones that Ukraine is now well versed in countering.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

Seniors are targeted by scammers, if only because they’re more likely to be at home if they’re retired and perhaps are not as well versed in technology as younger generations.

From MarketWatch Apr. 27, 2026

Basically, both Bloom and Sherri Pope were talented, educated, sensitive people who, before their marriage, had been so completely versed as social beings that neither could muster the guts to face up to anything.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Many former assistants have risen in the Hollywood ranks, and credit Scott Rudin Productions with versing them in the ways of the industry.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2021

Deadpool 2 doesn’t have as many characters as Infinity War, but full enjoyment of it is even more conditional on a thorough versing in the source material.

From Slate May 17, 2018

Nixon himself held no illusions about re versing the 1960 decision,* planned to remain above the rumblings about crooked counts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fighting, writing, digging, rigging, Hiving, wiving, nursing, versing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whoever’s versing him right now is a brave soul.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles




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