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Recent Examples of prose
Han, 53, began her career with a group of poems in a South Korean magazine, before making her prose debut in 1995 with a short story collection.
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Christian Edwards, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024
Coincidentally, prose writer Percival Everett (American Fiction) recently released his own take on this subject, James (Doubleday, 2024), which garnered big sales and critical plaudits.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Her cool, detached prose style became synonymous with New Journalism in the 1960s and ’70s.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
Librettists supplied composers with heaps of verse for arias and other vocal numbers, alongside chunks of prose recitative that allowed for interstitial exposition.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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Christian Edwards, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024
Coincidentally, prose writer Percival Everett (American Fiction) recently released his own take on this subject, James (Doubleday, 2024), which garnered big sales and critical plaudits.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Her cool, detached prose style became synonymous with New Journalism in the 1960s and ’70s.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
Librettists supplied composers with heaps of verse for arias and other vocal numbers, alongside chunks of prose recitative that allowed for interstitial exposition.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prose
Adjective
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This was an obtuse and unpoetic diktat, a showy way to miss the fact that a song’s history—its use over time, by real people, inspired by the exigencies of ritual and action—can inform its meaning more than its mere lyrics ever could.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2022
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Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.—
Sanjena Sathian,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2021
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In the face of that chilling, prosaic nightmare, all Perkins can do is laugh.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Mazen al-Hamada’s relatives learned of his death in a more prosaic way: photographs from the military morgue circulated on social media.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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The promise of Severance is a seductive one: The titular procedure separates a person’s work self from the rest of their identity, granting them a literal work-life balance.—
Emma Stefansky,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2025
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Yet those same machines can effortlessly run any flavor of Linux, which could prevent literal tons of e-waste.—
Jason Evangelho,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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