couplet
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While picking Jay-Z seems surprising given this dismissive couplet, his company Roc Nation has been helping the league with live music strategy since 2019—he effectively booked himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
A centuries-old Persian couplet often repeated in Indian-administered Kashmir translates to: "If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here."
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
So fullness of that scene did have to be compressed down to that little couplet.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2024
“My heart stopped beating long ago / It pours out like a river,” one couplet goes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
And then she sang to herself, a little couplet Bod had never heard before.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
The series’ musical landscape also includes a myriad of folk songs, such as the drunken tavern tune “Alice With Three Fingers” and the childish rhyming couplets of “The Hammer and the Anvil.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
She planned to hang traditional Chinese couplets -- usually on auspicious red paper -- before sharing a family meal.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
On Chinese social media, pictures show some users sticking couplets or upside down pictures of Malfoy's signature smirk.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
The chapters are arranged like the bayts, or couplets, of a ghazal, and they describe a succession of infatuations, some romantic and some purely poetic, as in the odes to the 14th-century Persian lyricist Hafez.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The sluggers turned as a unit to look toward the source of the noise, but Jesse hadn’t noticed and was still talking about memory, this time in rhyming couplets.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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