rhyme
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But he says it's also difficult to account for the sales, which appear random with "no rhyme or reason."
From BBC β Aug. 15, 2026
From certain angles it seems not much bigger than the shoe occupied by the old woman in the nursery rhyme.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 24, 2026
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 β 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 β Jun. 5, 2026
Rhythm: the rhyme is very simple with 8 beats in each line.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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“The parents learn the value of those interactions with their children. The importance of spending time truly talking, not just directive talk … but open-ended questions, using songs and rhymes, storytelling, descriptive language.”
From Slate β Sep. 5, 2026
“Altruist’s mission to make financial advice more accessible, more affordable, and help advisers scale their practices, that very much rhymes with what we’re trying to do here at Vanguard,” Ramji said.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 26, 2026
The problem with the 2030s is that it rhymes with the 1930s, which was a horrible period for geopolitical crises.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 26, 2026
The writing team researched medieval songs and kids’ rhymes to develop the tunes.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 16, 2026
It rhymes with shield and is spelled like it too.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Mr. Redler’s score leans toward musical theater, with tuneful, rhythmic arias often built on strophic, deftly rhymed text as well as deep affinity with Maclean’s poetic diction.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 23, 2026
In 2002, he even made fun of the situation with the self-deprecating I Will Talk And Hollywood Will Listen, in which the title rhymed with the lyric "Mr Spielberg look just what you're missing".
From BBC β Dec. 15, 2024
“But I let that go during ‘Welcome Mat’ — I didn’t even care if things rhymed — and that gave me so much more of a canvas to work with.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 28, 2024
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 β Jul. 30, 2024
Will and George were doing well in business, and Joe was writing letters home in rhymed verse and making as smart an attack on all the accepted verities as was healthful.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Warmer seas help spawn Pacific hurricanes, which have already battered Hawai‘i this year. As I write this, rhyming storms named Polo and Nolo threaten to bring flooding to Hawai‘i and Mexico.
From Slate β Sep. 28, 2026
One story is told in rhyming couplets and another is conveyed entirely in images of paw and footprints.
From The Wall Street Journal β 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 β 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 β May 8, 2026
Without books in the peach stand, I often passed the time making up poems, but that slow afternoon I didn’t have the patience for rhyming words.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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