chapbook

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Recent Examples of chapbook Harjo wrote her first volume of poetry, a nine-poem chapbook called The Last Song, in 1975. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025 Bores wrote in his 1590 chapbook a year later that Stumpp’s head was also severed from his body and placed upon a stake, providing a gruesome warning to the community. Sean Neumann, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025 Few bookstores were willing to carry Shameless Hussy’s publications, not just because of the content — there was not, at first, an appetite for such bold feminist writing — but also because of the format: spineless, stapled chapbooks, like zines. Penelope Green, New York Times, 17 May 2024 Her 2011 chapbook, Catacombs, and her 2016 poetry collection, Cannibal, deploy vivid descriptions of Jamaica’s lush terrain and native wildlife, to haunting effect. Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2023 See All Example Sentences for chapbook
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Noun
  • The Sons of Anarchy veteran, who is set to play infamous killer Ed Gein in the upcoming Season 3 of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix anthology, is also in talks to play Lizzie Borden’s father Andrew Jackson Borden in Season 4, Variety reports.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 2 Sep. 2025
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    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
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  • And Powell also nodded to that possibility in his keynote speech last month at the Kansas City Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Blanchflower confirmed that Dartmouth and the UN are co-hosting a symposium in New Hampshire in late October, with guests including Jonathan Haidt and Robert Putnam.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
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  • Instead, the pivotal performance proved to be Madonna's breakout moment, and Like a Virgin would become her first number one album.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The album cover, which was shared on Instagram, was immediately met with harsh criticism as many fans labeled the photograph of the singer on all fours with a man pulling her hair as suggestive.
    Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • The first half of September should see the most showers, the almanac said in its 60-day prediction.
    Kate Linderman, Idaho Statesman, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This almanac was first published in 1792.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
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  • Other names in the compilation of messages were attorney Alan Dershowitz and Epstein’s mother, Pauline Stolofsky Epstein.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The revision, a routine step in the compilation of government labor statistics, assesses monthly survey estimates alongside state unemployment data.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • The ban, which was featured in a Park Service compendium of regulations that dated May 20, went into effect after several protests at El Capitan made headlines.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • This book, more think-tank report than scholarly monograph, provides a useful factual compendium of background material about Polish defense policy—although the absence of an index or a digital version remains a major obstacle to its efficient use.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Surround it with pumpkins, fashion it in front of a garland strand, or place it on a velvet table running across the manteltop to tie the whole look together.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025
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    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 5 Sep. 2025
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    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
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    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025

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