prose
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First OpenAI and then numerous other companies began offering large language models that could write prose, translate speech, produce videos on command and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Writing in newspaper Canard Enchaine, Fabrice Colin also criticised the formulaic sentence structure and said he "vainly looked for a unique voice" in the prose.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Its bare bones prose and electrifying pictures preserve, honor and celebrate the people, places and ideas responsible for Rosales’ sentimental education.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Like him, she boasts an immaculate prose style, a dry wit and a taste for narrative legerdemain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Killjoy style manuals tell writers to avoid alliteration, but good prose is enlivened with moments of poetry, like this line with its pleasing meter and its impish pairing of marital and medical.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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It contains drawings and proses which have nothing but a formal, not an illustrative or explanatory, relation to each other.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He started by doing one prose and one "con" a week, instead of two proses and two "cons" like the rest of the form.
From The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh
Never mind how the pedagogue proses, You want not antiquity's stamp; A lip, that such fragrance discloses, Oh! never should smell of the lamp.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
Philip proses about the burden he takes up and the cares he endures.
From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
It was Fun to write jolly compositions and Fun to set proses out of George Meredith which bore no relation to classical thought or idiom and couldn't conceivably be translated into reasonable Latin or Greek.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
A similar bill prosed in the Senate would change visitation restrictions specifically for nursing homes, although the measure has not yet been placed on the Legislature’s agenda.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2021
He prosed away about that until I had to yawn, but they seemed to like it.
From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by William H. C. Groome
The Dean prosed on about the effects of the Ne Temere decree.
From The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham
Poets have sung and prosaists have prosed of the virtues of individual dogs, but nobody has had the hardihood to eulogize the species.
From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes
Two brothers, counsellor and pleader, went Through life on terms of mutual compliment; That thought the other Gracchus, this supposed His brother Mucius; so they praised and prosed.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington
Most of the time all the spectator sees is Spencer Tracy sitting in a rowboat and mumbling to himself, and all he hears is Hemingway's own narrative prosing along the sound track.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And, mercy on us, what sermons they preached in those cold old churches, prosing away sometimes for two hours at a time!
From The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Her long-winded prosing was now cut short and ridiculed, and her Mops dare scarcely put his nose outside the good lady's petticoats, under the shelter of which he lay snoring from morning till night.
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
I wonder he didn’t stop drowned if he was surrounded by people who kept on prosing like you are.”
From Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop by Harold Piffard
Hear Dryden prosing away upon paraphrase, and metaphrase, and imitation, in his very best style.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Terms, Grade 6, Unit 1
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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
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