meter
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Voters will mark ballots that are almost half a meter long and feature a head-scratching 35 presidential candidates.
From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026
All of this readily registers on Barry’s Dada-absurdity meter.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
As Violetta gives Alfredo her likeness to remind him of her after she dies, Verdi brings in the rhythm of a funeral march, but within the triple meter of the waltz.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
These minerals, including ferric hydroxysulfate, occur in thin layers roughly a meter thick that sit both above and below basaltic materials.
From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026
The games were meant to show the various types of poetic meter: iambic pentameter, for example, which William Shakespeare used to marvelous effect in many of his poems and plays.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing meter
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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