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[son-it] / ˈsɒn ɪt /






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When you can write a sonnet but can’t spell “strawberry,” you haven’t achieved intelligence.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

Underneath her outfit, “in a little bag next to her skin,” Vaill says, “she wore his little poem,” a love sonnet he’d written her during their courtship.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025

It was a reference to a sonnet by Percy Bysse Shelley: Ozymandias, King of Kings.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024

It was a poetic ending for the man who named his company after a 19th-century sonnet about arrogance, hubris and pride laid low.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2024

On one side was written a poem, a sonnet.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg




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