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Recent Examples of proseHan, 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.—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 See All Example Sentences for prose
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.
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Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2022
Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.
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Sanjena Sathian,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2021
Despite being a literal child at the time, Barrymore grew up going to clubs like Studio 54 with her mother and even threw her 10th birthday party at a bar.
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EW.com,
EW.com,
8 Apr. 2025
The inclusion of Greenland in this narrative may not be literal—but its symbolic presence lingers.
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