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[vurs] / vɜrs /


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On the second verse you can change the beat or the lyrics, and do anything you like.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

McLaughlin’s modern verse “translation” of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” is now receiving its West Coast premiere at Boston Court Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

To this literary stew Mr. Power adds a brief sketch of Barrett Browning’s life, highlighting points at which her path crossed with Homer or led her toward her own efforts at epic verse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The ink had run; the text, where it survived, was written in enigmatic verse, and the centerfold map was almost completely obscured with smears and blotchy stains.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

His productions on Scarface’s 1997’s “The Untouchable” helped it go platinum, with “Smile” sporting one of the last verses recorded by Tupac Shakur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The chapel will also have new stained-glass windows to reflect one of Parton's favourite Bible verses: "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven."

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

“High Noon” begins with an atmospheric whistle on loan from a Sergio Leone film, and Georgia rapper Gunna trades verses with Shaboozey over a coiled trap beat tangled with slide guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

With Mallory, I just wanted to dunk her in the middle of the thing that she thinks she’s so well versed about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

To critique any tool, though, you have to be well versed in it, says Daniel Zhao, chief economist at Glassdoor.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

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 15, 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

Since Aunt Ivy had been reluctant to trade in her wood cookstove, I was well versed in how to use one, at least for cooking; baking was beyond me.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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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