as in sonnet
a humorous rhyming composition of five lines
She recited an old limerick which elicited guffaws from the crowd
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Recent Examples of limerick
Like Andy Warhol’s soup cans, Slaughterhouse-Five, with its jokes, drawings, risqué limericks and flying saucers, blurs the line between high and low culture.
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Susan Farrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023
The team started with sonnets, then went on to limericks.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
In May 1990, third-grader Taylor Burns sent him a handwritten limerick about a mouse found in a stew.
—Emma Balter, Chron, 4 Oct. 2022
Lines 1, 2 and 5 of a limerick rhyme with one another, as do Lines 3 and 4.
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
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Susan Farrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023
The team started with sonnets, then went on to limericks.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
In May 1990, third-grader Taylor Burns sent him a handwritten limerick about a mouse found in a stew.
—Emma Balter, Chron, 4 Oct. 2022
Lines 1, 2 and 5 of a limerick rhyme with one another, as do Lines 3 and 4.
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for limerick
Noun
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Read: Let our critic guide you through the power and paradox of an old-school sonnet.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.—
Adriana Lee,
WWD,
26 Nov. 2024
Noun
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After Vincent’s death, there were excruciating days, days of numbness, days of contentment and days of melancholy, days of reading and writing and days of not being able to read or write, days of holding on upside down (like the bat in Marianne Moore’s poem) and days of holding on right side up.—
Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
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Her journals and poems, collected in binders, served as the scaffolding.—
Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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For starters, when asked to write a second line for a rhyming poem, the model first decided on the final word—the rhyme—and then went back and filled in the rest of the line.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Smith, long known for clean, polished rhymes, now sounds like a man confronting himself, his critics, and his choices — unapologetically.—
Delano Massey,
Axios,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The rabbi intones psalms and speaks about his mother, offering recollections of her and the principal details of her life: birth in the embers of the Shoah, Yiddishkeit, Soviet existence, antisemitism, immigration, courage, struggle, family, community, legacy.—
David Bezmozgis,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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Then, using his talents playing the lyre and singing psalms, David grew to be a supportive comfort to the possibly mad King Saul (Ali Suliman) as well as begin a romance with Saul’s daughter, Michal (Indy Lewis).—
Jim Halterman,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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Denise then left the stage, and Jackson began singing the song’s fourth verse.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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For the rendition, Musgraves kicked off the first verse, before sharing lines in the chorus with Finneas.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Limerick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limerick. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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