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 Kings’ largest lead was 22 points late in the third quarter before the Lakers closed the stanza on a 15-5 run.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Jordan Poole had 10 points and Kuzma 9 in the opening stanza.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
For some reason, the last stanza to “The Hanging Tree” starts running through my head.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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
He reads from a stack of loose papers, his hands moving in time with the stanzas he spits like rap bars.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
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
She could multiply fractions, turn a cartwheel, and recite entire stanzas of “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” a marvelous poem about a shipwreck by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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