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stanza

[stan-zuh] / ˈstæn zə /
NOUN
stave
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NOUN
verse
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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

Later in the first stanza, he gave the same treatment to USC star guard Isaiah Collier, who went under a dribble-handoff screen from WSU forward Isaac Jones, who shuffled it to Watts on the wing.

From Seattle Times Mar. 1, 2024

It is a source of joy — and, for anyone disheartened by mainstream discourse today, nostalgic pangs — to see how effortlessly Hitchens reaches for a stanza of W.H.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 2, 2024

Over and over she played the new record Father had bought for her, imitating each sound until she was certain she could repeat a stanza.

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

In his analysis of “Moving Towards Home,” Miller highlights stanzas such as:

From Salon Oct. 30, 2025

Like many of her peers, she favors objects that bear the marks of use, as if, having inherited a sorely used world, she’s making stanzas from its leftovers.

From New York Times Jan. 13, 2023

Taylor mixes stanzas and prose blocks with photographs and collages and timelines.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2022

Dr. Holden read the last stanzas again and then looked up at me.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green




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