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alliteration

[uh-lit-uh-rey-shuhn] / əˌlɪt əˈreɪ ʃən /




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“A little alliteration was probably involved as well—‘Pit Bull Pollack,’” said Stephen Braga, who worked with Pollack at the Miller, Cassidy firm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

One for alliteration fans - could Broadway Boy follow Mon Mome, Party Politics and Red Rum as a nifty-sounding National winner for trainer, who has triumphed twice before?

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

I love alliteration, comes from the in-the-moment interactions I have with people.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2024

And among the early reading and writing skills that the series incorporates over the course of 20 episodes will be letter-sound identification and decoding words, blending sounds, alliteration, spelling and punctuation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2023

Killjoy style manuals tell writers to avoid alliteration, but good prose is enlivened with moments of poetry, like this line with its pleasing meter and its impish pairing of marital and medical.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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