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stanza

[stan-zuh] / ˈstæn zə /
NOUN
stave
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NOUN
verse
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With every stanza, she settled into a musical rhythm that was satiric and bitingly honest.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

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

Jordan Poole had 10 points and Kuzma 9 in the opening stanza.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2023

I reached the end of the refrain before Aloine’s first stanza.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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