stanza
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Crocker has changed his approach as he was now coming forward a bit more with his tight guard, and that was suiting Donovan, with the fight seemingly on a knife-edge heading into the final stanza.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
Mercifully for Edmonton, they have Leon Draisaitl, their German goal-scoring virtuoso and overtime reaper, who yet again found magic in the sudden-death stanza.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2025
“The word stops, the heart dies / The wind counts the lost goodbyes,” goes one characteristically haunting stanza.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
“Obviously, the second half, definitely missed more shots,” said Wells, whose team made 2 of 11 from deep in the second stanza.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
There was nothing to do but gesture to the right and gesture to the left, exactly as she had practiced, only faster and faster, until finally the stanza was done.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
The books are episodic, composed of scenes that function like poetic stanzas that are linked as much by ideas and motifs as by narrative progression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
They spoke on a recent day in their Berlin studio as they giggled and tripped over their own stanzas — which exploit a feature of German grammar that crams nouns together into strings of syllables.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
I gave my idea a form, a structure in which to be contained stanzas, line breaks that were cues.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2023
Taylor mixes stanzas and prose blocks with photographs and collages and timelines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
Words to a song, “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,” formed into stanzas.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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