rhyme
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Its name is inspired by the nursery rhyme Old Mother Goose, reflecting the idea of an ancient goose emerging from the mud of a fossil deposit.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Their lead single “Fabienk” is studded with hair-trigger riffs — if you can even call them that — that mix the playful nursery rhyme melodies of Battles with the no-wave drone of Sonic Youth.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Singsong rhyme and meter are out; free verse and wistfulness are in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
That does tend to rhyme a little more with the current day.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026
Tea—oceans of tea—and a ridiculous nursery rhyme called “Hickory Dickory Dock.”
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
The writing team researched medieval songs and kids’ rhymes to develop the tunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Though the state of California has never taken on a role quite like this before, the idea rhymes with other policies at both the state and federal level.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
Attending LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, he became friends with future rapper Dana Dane and they started writing their own rhymes.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
This kind of talk rhymes with how Tesla in 2016 described Musk’s plans for merging Tesla with SolarCity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
“Because ‘ehtiaj’ rhymes with ‘ezdevaj’ so the change is clever.”
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
The projections of period décor were charming, as was the slightly antiquated rhymed English text of the titles, but the undirected singers missed the energy of a fully realized performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
It was cheerful and rhymed but lacked oomph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 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
One of the first things he and his colleagues did was ask GPT-4 to write a mathematical proof showing that there were infinite prime numbers and do it in a way that rhymed.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
“I needed another word that rhymed with gooey, chewy, and screwy,” I explained.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
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
MS Now‘s Jacob Soboroff played Mamdani the rhyming boast that begin’s “My mayor’s Muslim, my bagel’s Jewish.”
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
A relatively anonymous take on Dua Lipa's dance-pop, it loses points for rhyming "fire" with "desire" - but I can't get it out of my head.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
Until we see persistent, continual job losses over a long period of time across the entire economy, the safe bet is that history is simply rhyming.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
“At first glance, it appears to be rhyming quatrains in iambic heptameter.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing rhyme
Poetry: Literary Devices
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