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a composition in verse in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something
This poem is titled, "An Ode to My Mother."
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Recent Examples of ode
From ones that incorporate fans to odes to classic binge-worthy TV, with the help of social media, everyone’s creative wheels are turning — and people are learning one new step after another, feet shuffling, turning, stepping with ease.
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Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
Parfums de Marly is an ode to uniqueness, a celebration of individuality, and an invitation to embrace the ultimate luxury: the freedom to be yourself!
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Maralyn and Maurice Bailey’s journey of being stranded at sea is a gripping ode to survival and hope.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 July 2025
Chloe Spring 1984 Ready-to-Wear Show In Karl Lagerfeld’s spring 1984 collection for Chloe, Iman boasted a theatrical hairstyle that was meant to resemble the collection’s ubiquitous ode to needleworkers.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 25 July 2025
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Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
Parfums de Marly is an ode to uniqueness, a celebration of individuality, and an invitation to embrace the ultimate luxury: the freedom to be yourself!
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Maralyn and Maurice Bailey’s journey of being stranded at sea is a gripping ode to survival and hope.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 July 2025
Chloe Spring 1984 Ready-to-Wear Show In Karl Lagerfeld’s spring 1984 collection for Chloe, Iman boasted a theatrical hairstyle that was meant to resemble the collection’s ubiquitous ode to needleworkers.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ode
Noun
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Kazuko Kojima, the child who inspired that poem, still lives in Hiroshima and her 80 birthday is this month.—
Ed Simon
August 18,
Literary Hub,
18 Aug. 2025
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These engineers and scientists in training, hailing from across the world, were gathering to compose and critique poems outside the classroom.—
Joshua Bennett,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This is the kind of show where deep, lasting soul-filling love is signified by the sharing of a single Shakespeare sonnet.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
14 July 2025
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The Emma Lazarus sonnet commissioned for the Statue of Liberty speaks to the White Sox.—
Phil Rogers,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
Noun
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This free-to-access archive offers a rare glimpse into the mind of the genre-defying icon, featuring over 90,000 items, from handwritten lyrics and costumes to private photographs and personal effects.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The song is rewired, its pace just a bit faster, a bit more urgent, matched by the band members’ voices joining in, singing the song’s final lyrics together—a collective push to the finish line.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Roc is at his best skillfully weaving internal and external rhymes together, crafting scenes of his charmed life as an indomitable hustler who can’t be shown up, intimidated, or outrhymed.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
8 Aug. 2025
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An old American folk rhyme chuckles: Where can a man find a cap for his knee,Or a key for a lock of his hair?Can his two eyes be called an academyBecause there are pupils in there?—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Aug. 2025
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Film studios execs across Hollywood lament how comedies have become an endangered species in the streaming age.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Aug. 2025
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Estate agents lament, tabloids predict doom for the tax base, and everyone seems certain that London’s days as a center of commerce are numbered.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
20 July 2025
Noun
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Bill Gunn's vampire thriller Ganja & Hess and Park Chan-wook's revenge epic Oldboy both transformed under Lee's nimble hands, and now he's reinterpreted an enduring staple of global cinema: Akira Kurosawa's High and Low.—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Co-directed by Cannes award-winning filmmaker Guan Hu (Black Dog, The Eight Hundred), who is also renowned for his large-scale war epics, Dongji Rescue is slated for release in the UK and Ireland on August 22, 2025, with other European territories to follow from August 29.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
28 July 2025
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Kretzmer-Seed felt strongly about the inclusion of psalms from the Hallel service as well as a Spanish-Portuguese prayer for those in captivity, which was originally written for victims of the Spanish Inquisition.—
Marla Brown Fogelman,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Aug. 2025
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On Jewish holidays, the Hallel prayer is recited in Shul as a psalm of praise and thanksgiving and collective expression of gratitude for GDs miracles.—
Rafael James,
Sun Sentinel,
24 June 2025
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The cool, quiet-storm ambiance gives this ballad an Eighties slow-dance feel.—
Will Dukes,
Rolling Stone,
22 Aug. 2025
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Meme del Real — Café Tacvba’s longtime keyboardist and composer — honors his family roots in northern Mexico with a rich, experimental pop ballad that fuses electronic music and guitars in the style of regional Mexican music.—
Natalia Cano,
Billboard,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Ode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ode. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.
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