as in poem
a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
wrote many mournful runes after her lover's untimely death
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Recent Examples of rune
The hot, scarred night of Mustafar is never-changing, the cave lit by the eternal glow of the ancient runes.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
That Joyce was Svevo’s English teacher and Borges studied runes.
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Ayşegül Savaş,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
Reading the runes of the Apple special event invites is always interesting.
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David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
The speculation about the new album has been accompanied by a recent revamp of F+TM’s official website, which was wiped and updated with a landing page spotlighting a cryptic rune featuring two capital T’s along with four surrounding moon phases over a picture of a windswept field.
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Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
12 Aug. 2025
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
That Joyce was Svevo’s English teacher and Borges studied runes.
—
Ayşegül Savaş,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
Reading the runes of the Apple special event invites is always interesting.
—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
The speculation about the new album has been accompanied by a recent revamp of F+TM’s official website, which was wiped and updated with a landing page spotlighting a cryptic rune featuring two capital T’s along with four surrounding moon phases over a picture of a windswept field.
—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rune
Noun
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The poem that precedes it, the Iliad, is a cruel and beautiful work, the ultimate story of war; the Odyssey has its warlike passages, but its central energies seem almost commonplace beside the merciless fury of Achilles.
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The poems explore themes of loss, identity, artmaking and the natural world, as well as the 1885 expulsion of Chinese immigrants from Eureka, California.
Noun
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So to reel it in, Pillsbury and his band threw on a sitar — which made the cut on a few songs — and a flute solo.
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Listen to the Obama playlists Barack Obama is known for releasing his songs of the summer playlist each year, and his end-of-year favorites in books, movies and music.
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“Rune.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rune. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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