stanza
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Then the second stanza abruptly ends, interrupted, just like that woman’s imagined life and activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
A shaky middle stanza, when the 26-year-old right-hander stumbled with a 2-4 mark and 4.43 ERA over his next eight outings from May 8 to June 19.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025
The Buffaloes led 59-47 entering the fourth quarter but struggled in the final stanza scoring just nine points.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 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
“Marina,” as the poem is known, consists of 291 stanzas and 2,900 verses.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 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
Dr. Holden read the last stanzas again and then looked up at me.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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