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
Would you say that sums up the spirit of “Elsinore” about as well as any couplet could?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Austria has the best opening couplet of the year: "I'm an ocean of love / And you're scared of water."
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
Whether we are talking about 24 hours or a millennium, it is as chilling a rhymed couplet of stated political intent as one could envision.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
And then she sang to herself, a little couplet Bod had never heard before.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
One story is told in rhyming couplets and another is conveyed entirely in images of paw and footprints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
There are, in fact, some rather disturbing rhymed couplets, if you will.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
“Not that again. Last time Apollo cursed a cabin, it took a week for the rhyming couplets to wear off” I shuddered.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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