illiterate
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“A passeggiata in pineta is just pleasure,” Mr. Pasanella alliterated, using the Italian word for walk.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022
Neatly alliterated with Mr. Hughes's name in the Eastern Republican powwows, was the name of Herbert C. Hoover, for Vice President.
From Time Magazine Archive
He received innumerable complimentary and alliterated nicknames, and a match with noisy and preposterous Max Baer.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Mr. Hoover's name was alliterated with nothing but itself in the Republican talk elsewhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
I used alliteration whenever I could, and stressed as much as possible the alliterated words, and I changed the length of the line with the changes of the original.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
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