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Then the second stanza abruptly ends, interrupted, just like that woman’s imagined life and activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

There’s that stanza in “There’s No Business Like Show Business” that goes: “There’s no people like show people / They smile when they are low.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

“Obviously, the second half, definitely missed more shots,” said Wells, whose team made 2 of 11 from deep in the second stanza.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

Gregor and Henry had played out the last stanza of “The Prophecy of Gray.”

From "Gregor the Overlander" 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

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

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

She could multiply fractions, turn a cartwheel, and recite entire stanzas of “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” a marvelous poem about a shipwreck by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood