rhyme
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From certain angles it seems not much bigger than the shoe occupied by the old woman in the nursery rhyme.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 24, 2026
Its name is inspired by the nursery rhyme Old Mother Goose, reflecting the idea of an ancient goose emerging from the mud of a fossil deposit.
From Science Daily β Jul. 11, 2026
Their lead single “Fabienk” is studded with hair-trigger riffs — if you can even call them that — that mix the playful nursery rhyme melodies of Battles with the no-wave drone of Sonic Youth.
From Salon β Jun. 5, 2026
Thinking of the old nursery rhyme “Muffin Man,” and a Frank Zappa song of the same name, Kirby decided to call them Muffler Men.
From Los Angeles Times β May 12, 2026
“The rhyme says, ‘from o’er the threshold seek and you will see.’
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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All she remembered from her early childhood in Arizona were snippets of the nursery rhymes “Did You Ever See a Lassie?” and “The Bear Went Over the Mountain.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 7, 2026
“The parents learn the value of those interactions with their children. The importance of spending time truly talking, not just directive talk … but open-ended questions, using songs and rhymes, storytelling, descriptive language.”
From Slate β Sep. 5, 2026
The problem with the 2030s is that it rhymes with the 1930s, which was a horrible period for geopolitical crises.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 26, 2026
Dixon's fast-paced rhymes helped the songs stand out on the radio, and she became known for phrases such as "We're coming back strong", "M-I-S-T-double-E-Q", "Away we go" and "Enter!"
From BBC β May 22, 2026
Nobody can resist this style of music, with its hypnotizing beats and poetic rhymes.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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There, one song evoked a musical conception he had imagined but never achieved—“it dealt with space, and a logic that rhymed and was almost obtuse,” Mr. Batiste once told me.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 19, 2026
In 2002, he even made fun of the situation with the self-deprecating I Will Talk And Hollywood Will Listen, in which the title rhymed with the lyric "Mr Spielberg look just what you're missing".
From BBC β Dec. 15, 2024
The rhymed verse the characters speak in doesn’t at all hinder them from expressing themselves colloquially, in idioms that sound better with a languorous Southern lilt.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 19, 2024
Jester, troubadour, agent provocateur, Serge Gainsbourg rhymed his way through life in a fog of Gitanes smoke, making music of every genre.
From New York Times β Sep. 25, 2023
Gideon would start with a line and I’d come up with another that rhymed.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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Warmer seas help spawn Pacific hurricanes, which have already battered Hawai‘i this year. As I write this, rhyming storms named Polo and Nolo threaten to bring flooding to Hawai‘i and Mexico.
From Slate β Sep. 28, 2026
One story is told in rhyming couplets and another is conveyed entirely in images of paw and footprints.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 29, 2026
MS Now‘s Jacob Soboroff played Mamdani the rhyming boast that begin’s “My mayor’s Muslim, my bagel’s Jewish.”
From Salon β Jun. 14, 2026
Both books tell a tale about an adventure in a woodland full of animals, with the story told in rhyming couplets.
From BBC β Feb. 6, 2026
The natural rhythms inherent in rhyming can become the basis for exploration, improvisation, vocalizations, and instrumental creativity.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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