double meaning
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A mother’s screams of pain carry a woozy double meaning in a thematically saturated scene in the World War II drama “Amrum.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
He simply defined it as a rhetorical device involving a double meaning.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2024
“Accordion Eulogies” brims with such phrases: efficient, poetic, often delivered with double meaning.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
Their formal courthouse wedding is also a study in ironic double meaning, as Ali sits next to his lover Toni, but only as a witness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
The copies of my poems Rudy handed back had on them brief, inane remarks I read and reread for double meaning.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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