stanza
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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
“The word stops, the heart dies / The wind counts the lost goodbyes,” goes one characteristically haunting stanza.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
The Buffaloes led 59-47 entering the fourth quarter but struggled in the final stanza scoring just nine points.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Over and over she played the new record Father had bought for her, imitating each sound until she was certain she could repeat a stanza.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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
In his analysis of “Moving Towards Home,” Miller highlights stanzas such as:
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
When California’s new poet laureate, Lee Herrick, recited “My California,” his best-known work, from the poetry stage, the stanzas had a hypnotic effect on the throngs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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
Dr. Holden read the last stanzas again and then looked up at me.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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