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
A shaky middle stanza, when the 26-year-old right-hander stumbled with a 2-4 mark and 4.43 ERA over his next eight outings from May 8 to June 19.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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
Later in the first stanza, he gave the same treatment to USC star guard Isaiah Collier, who went under a dribble-handoff screen from WSU forward Isaac Jones, who shuffled it to Watts on the wing.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
For some reason, the last stanza to “The Hanging Tree” starts running through my head.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
She spends three stanzas working herself up to expressing her pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In his analysis of “Moving Towards Home,” Miller highlights stanzas such as:
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
And two others, “No Fear” and “Happy With You,” repeat lyrics like mantras as the music builds around them, filling up over 11 minutes of music with just two stanzas of words.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
They spoke on a recent day in their Berlin studio as they giggled and tripped over their own stanzas — which exploit a feature of German grammar that crams nouns together into strings of syllables.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
Partway through the stanzas, he began to sob.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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