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

WSU guard Myles Rice finished strong, posting nine points in the second stanza, but it wasn’t enough.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2024

It was, therefore, an eerily prophetic song, especially the stanza that went:

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis