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limerick

[lim-er-ik] / ˈlɪm ər ɪk /






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Kraft-Walker also ran limerick competitions to advertise Vegemite.

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2023

If you’re bored of reading this newsletter, you could ask ChatGPT or Bing to summarize the rest of it for you, or to rewrite it as a jaunty limerick.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

She donned a green dress, read a self-written limerick to U2 and invited the quartet onstage for an intimate toast of black velvets — Guinness mixed with champagne.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2022

"And it's a limerick poem - a five-line poem - which I've written on a pen pot with three crayons in to represent the pastel that Lowry used."

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2022

Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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