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verse

[vurs] / vɜrs /


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It isn’t until the closing lines of his verse that Eminem turns to God and the brotherhood of man.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

How else can you explain a verse that is 90% throat-clearing and preemptive dodges of the backlash he knows is coming?

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

The playwright’s fellow dramatist George Chapman published seven books of his verse translations of the “Iliad” in 1598.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Then he finished a verse and the next thing I know he's gone.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

You should imagine yourself walking through the verse, he said, stopping at the chiasmus, the middle line: He knows that which is in front of them and that which is behind them.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

He wrote “La Nieve” the night after filming an emotionally demanding execution and took inspiration from the verses in the last letter that Lorca wrote to Rodríguez Rapún.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Originally a collaboration with controversial rapper Ye, also known as Kanye West, Jay-Z left his voice in for the chorus but cut his verses out.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

“The pro-slavery factions were picking on specific verses like ‘slaves obey your masters’ and saying, ‘Well, we’re clearly advancing the more biblical society because look, the Bible says exactly what we’re doing,’” Coffman said.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Mr. Ackroyd is admiring of Auden’s poetic accomplishment, from his recondite early work to the later, more conversational and religiously inspired verses that some critics have disliked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Read the letters from home along with singing the new verses of the song.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Meanwhile, Ukraine's success in drone warfare has attracted the attention of rich Gulf states that have been targeted with the same types of Iranian-designed drones that Ukraine is now well versed in countering.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

Forty-five years old, tall and strikingly handsome, Sumner was the consummate New England intellectual: widely traveled, deeply versed in classics and the law, and staunchly committed to the cause of African-Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Seniors are targeted by scammers, if only because they’re more likely to be at home if they’re retired and perhaps are not as well versed in technology as younger generations.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

“We’re all, you know, well versed and steeped in the stories behind each document ... as students of history, it’s amazing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

Europeans were well versed in the brutal logic of quarantine.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Many former assistants have risen in the Hollywood ranks, and credit Scott Rudin Productions with versing them in the ways of the industry.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2021

Deadpool 2 doesn’t have as many characters as Infinity War, but full enjoyment of it is even more conditional on a thorough versing in the source material.

From Slate ● May 17, 2018

Fighting, writing, digging, rigging, Hiving, wiving, nursing, versing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nixon himself held no illusions about re versing the 1960 decision,* planned to remain above the rumblings about crooked counts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whoever’s versing him right now is a brave soul.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles


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