variants
also rime
as in to coincide
to be in agreement on every point
the new results don't rhyme with what we found out before
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variants
also rime
as in poetry
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Recent Examples of rhyme
Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2025
Ralph Waldo Emerson lobbied for the captain’s execution; Gordon’s wife presented Mary Todd Lincoln with a rhyming plea for clemency.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
Irvine says it’s created to rhyme with the Mansion, particularly in its color scheme, utilizing the same tones of green and white, only with different places of emphasis.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Verb
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At one point in the clip, SNL cast member Jane Wickline points out to Gillis that their names rhyme.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2025
Ralph Waldo Emerson lobbied for the captain’s execution; Gordon’s wife presented Mary Todd Lincoln with a rhyming plea for clemency.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
Sometimes bordering on the religious, Smith's rhymes are crisp and easily understood− an aberration from some of the mumble rap that has risen to prominence in recent years.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
Irvine says it’s created to rhyme with the Mansion, particularly in its color scheme, utilizing the same tones of green and white, only with different places of emphasis.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhyme
Verb
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Her Forest appointment coincided with the hiring of Dave Long — former Forest boys academy coach and women’s football coach developer and talent reporter — as head of the girls’ academy.—
Megan Feringa,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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The purging of bureaucrats has often coincided with zealous announcements of a new golden age.—
Charlie Tyson,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Much of Abdullah’s work draws inspiration from the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, capturing surreal, dreamlike scenes in which her figures go about their lives in flooding rooms, already ankle-deep.—
Omnia Saed,
ARTnews.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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Or the enduring image of the left fielder swooping two rows into the stands in Chicago for a catch, and the poetry of him throwing out 102 runners who shouldn’t have dared him.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
16 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The equation no longer corresponds to a Turing machine that computes perfect squares—and, more generally, the Diophantine equations can no longer encode the halting problem.—
Joseph Howlett,
WIRED,
9 Mar. 2025
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Under Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, the Space Force has defined a highly effective strategy; corresponding operational concepts and technologies; and a new training regimen to ensure U.S. equities in space are secured.—
David A. Deptula,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
Noun
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More specifically, the poetry of survival—verse written in the shadow of political extremity.—
Alissa Quart,
TIME,
13 Mar. 2025
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With flags and a World Cup, the verses were sung as the arguments started.—
Gilles Salomone,
CNN,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Expect to use up multiple pens on this novel in verse, an elegiac meditation on poesy and religion.—
Katie Ward Beim-Esche,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Mar. 2018
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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s feline poesy ends its Broadway revival.—
ALEXIS SOLOSKI,
New York Times,
21 Dec. 2017
Noun
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People were coming up and saying, ‘Is this really your first song?’.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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We were given 10 minutes to devise a song, along with a dance.—
Priscilla Posada,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Characters like Felix and Oswald have kind of an unfortunate connection to theater insofar as they’re associated with blackface minstrelsy—the notoriously racist form of stage performance where actors would blacken their faces, wear white gloves, and perform clownish antics.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Oct. 2024
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Henry counted among her influences American minstrelsy, European clowning traditions, and her own collection of African masks.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
22 Oct. 2024
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“Rhyme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhyme. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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