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
But after a disastrous opening stanza, UW’s defense suddenly stiffened — forcing three punts and a turnover on downs, while surrendering a single field goal in Michigan’s next seven drives.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
It was, therefore, an eerily prophetic song, especially the stanza that went:
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
She spends three stanzas working herself up to expressing her pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
When California’s new poet laureate, Lee Herrick, recited “My California,” his best-known work, from the poetry stage, the stanzas had a hypnotic effect on the throngs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
I gave my idea a form, a structure in which to be contained stanzas, line breaks that were cues.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2023
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
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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