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Barbra Streisand closed the “In Memoriam” segment, which Billy Crystal opened by honoring the late Rob Reiner, by singing a verse of “The Way We Were” in tribute to the late Robert Redford.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
This final quote is not from the Bible, although it has the cadence of a religious verse.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
The audience seem to know every word - with the whole room reverberating to the declarative, "I don't need a boyfriend", that crops up in the second verse of Nice To Each Other.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
Eliot and Larkin stopped writing verse in late middle age.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
And then everybody got the idea, and it became a sort of song with a verse of “Please, Ms. Washington” and a chorus of “Please, please, please.”
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
Vocabulary lists containing verse
Reading: Literature - Poetry - Introductory
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"Easter, 1916" by W.B. Yeats
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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