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rhyme

noun as in poetry in which lines end with like sounds

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As they say, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

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He also wandered into Assembly Hall and told the Hoosier crowd that he “never took a back seat to anybody,” and that in-state rival Purdue does something that rhymes with “trucks.”

The local theatre and performance group have been committed to carrying the rural custom of "mumming" or "rhyming" into the 21st century, and in doing so caught the attention of McQueen's creative director, Seán McGirr.

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Yet he didn’t seem interested in letters or rhyming the way his older sister had, and he had a very difficult time learning to write his name.

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Burns instead prefers a quote that many have attributed to the writer Mark Twain: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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