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rhyme

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Recent Examples of rhyme
Verb
If history rhymes then bonds, especially the vanilla kind issued by the US Treasury, will not appeal to investors this time around either. Brett Owens, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024 Mononoke’s murder mysteries are circular but never boring: Its stories echo and rhyme with one another as the merchant travels from town to town, a spell-binding take on the supernatural. Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2024
Noun
These were amateur rhymes from guys from our community. Andres Tardio, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2024 Some adolescents like to journal, write poetry, lyrics, or rhymes. Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 2 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rhyme 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhyme
Verb
  • Friday’s news coincided with a campaign launched by the 2018 HOF inductee in an effort to raise awareness and proceeds for cancer research, a pledge highlighted by the campaign’s lavender logo meant to represent all forms of cancer.
    Jelani Scott, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Remarkably, Klinsmann's inclusion in the starting XI coincided with a four-match unbeaten streak.
    David Ferrini, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This is not a proclamation of the obvious, namely that pop is the opposite of poetry.
    Jennifer Harlan, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Kwanzaa celebrations vary, but typically include lighting candles, one per night; placing meaningful items on a traditional woven mat on tables; sharing meals and a karamu feast; poetry; dance and music, according to the Official Kwanzaa website.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Participants also suggest that their current birthmarks or birth defects correspond to wounds from a previous life.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Today’s state-of-the-art models seem to have networks of code that consistently correspond to certain topics, ideas, or entities.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Swifties who took umbrage at a reference to Taylor Swift in Ye’s verse could only slow its momentum.
    Mike Wass, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
  • In verse one, the guy honors the motorcade by pulling into a Kwik Sak parking lot.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • John told Lennon if the song ascended to the top of the charts, Lennon would have to join him onstage to sing it.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The doc tells the story of how George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s beloved ’80s duo turned one song into a cultural phenomenon.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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