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stanza

[stan-zuh] / ˈstæn zə /
NOUN
stave
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NOUN
verse
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Crocker has changed his approach as he was now coming forward a bit more with his tight guard, and that was suiting Donovan, with the fight seemingly on a knife-edge heading into the final stanza.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2025

Mercifully for Edmonton, they have Leon Draisaitl, their German goal-scoring virtuoso and overtime reaper, who yet again found magic in the sudden-death stanza.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2025

But after a disastrous opening stanza, UW’s defense suddenly stiffened — forcing three punts and a turnover on downs, while surrendering a single field goal in Michigan’s next seven drives.

From Seattle Times Jan. 8, 2024

Jordan Poole had 10 points and Kuzma 9 in the opening stanza.

From Washington Times Nov. 1, 2023

I hummed a stanza of Areida’s favorite song, a sad one, about a farmer whose family is starving.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

The books are episodic, composed of scenes that function like poetic stanzas that are linked as much by ideas and motifs as by narrative progression.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

I gave my idea a form, a structure in which to be contained stanzas, line breaks that were cues.

From Salon Jan. 15, 2023

Like many of her peers, she favors objects that bear the marks of use, as if, having inherited a sorely used world, she’s making stanzas from its leftovers.

From New York Times Jan. 13, 2023

Taylor mixes stanzas and prose blocks with photographs and collages and timelines.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2022

The final three stanzas of “Song of Myself” were also highlighted.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green




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