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limerick

[lim-er-ik] / ˈlɪm ər ɪk /






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Kraft-Walker also ran limerick competitions to advertise Vegemite.

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2023

If you’re bored of reading this newsletter, you could ask ChatGPT or Bing to summarize the rest of it for you, or to rewrite it as a jaunty limerick.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

He asked the student to read a limerick about a monster-like machine that “munches up socks by the pair.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

By “significantly,” we mean that a “he” or “her” won’t qualify your limerick unless it were really focused on that word.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2021

Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.

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




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