ode
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"Since this spider was the first polymorphic from this region, we decided to make it an ode to the amazing mountain ranges."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Mostly, though, the film is an ode, a love letter to a much beloved writer, assembled with a brisk and often beautiful collage-like style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The song is an ode to life’s impressive lack of meaning.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
The anti-capitalist ode “Death To My Hometown” follows “Born In The USA,” and that leads into the band’s cover of the Clash’s “Clampdown.”
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
One day I will write an ode about kissing.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
But the chorus of Theban citizens, whose odes interrupt the action at crucial points, makes clear that not only the ruling clan but the entire society is at stake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
The team was undecided on how well Mellencamp’s biggest hits—sepia-tinted odes to small-town America—fit today’s college football madhouse cathedrals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Football "cannot be boosted by singing odes or telling stories", he noted.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025
In the lead up to this spring's dual-brood emergence, a flurry of cicada recipes, sweet treats and culinary odes have sung the bulky bugs' praises.
From Salon ● May 30, 2024
And Rabbi Yehuda, who still writes to this day beautiful odes to God in His Glory.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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