prose
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It also earned 28-year-old Salam a place on the Observer's list of the best debut novelists of 2026, with the paper saying "his raucous, wildly inventive prose is bound for a much bigger audience".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
She developed, writes Ms. Lutz, a “weird, witchy” sense of humor, doodled violent images in the margins of her books and made a specialty, in her poetry and prose, of the “nocturnal and crepuscular.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Osgood wrote two-minute reports in succinct prose delivered in his mellifluous tones.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Andy O’Bryan, who co-founded an online group for entrepreneurs interested in AI, said he’s seen more people trying to scuff up AI-generated prose with typos or run-on sentences.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
The lyrics for each section were preceded by a paragraph of prose that augmented the narrative laid out in the lyrics.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Vocabulary lists containing prose
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Terms, Grade 6, Unit 1
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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
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