epode

Definition of epodenext

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Noun
  • Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • Documenting her and her fellow volunteers’ attentions, the book is an ode to the kind of careful, patient natural history that contemporary science practiced at its increasingly rapid pace does not encourage as much anymore.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The restaurant is an ode to his Egyptian roots as well as the smorgasbord of flavors and cuisines that make up the Middle East and Mediterranean.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • If Wyatt and Surrey could pen brilliant sonnets under Tudor tyranny, then certainly great art can be produced under capitalism despite its particular degradations.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code.
    Nicole Fraenkel, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Ginsberg’s incantatory dithyrambs pulled the Beats, Walt Whitman and much of 20th century poetry into view.
    Sesshu Foster, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • Instead of tucking her poem away in a notebook, Santos decided to publish it in 2021.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The writer and performer composes poems, short stories and plays that highlight joys and contend with struggles.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In Berceuse Parish, there are so many elegies.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The show, a sort of elegy for Gen X, opens with a flash-forward to July 16, 1999, the final hours of Carolyn and John.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • After all, audiences may be captivated by the psalm singing itself, but then can also find more things that capture their imagination in the observational doc.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Gallagher is also excited about Psalms of the People (Salim Nan Daoine), Jack Archer’s Gaelic-language documentary about Scotland’s cultural heritage of traditional Gaelic psalm singing.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Your freestyle at Harvard University in 2016 was searing and soaring epos.
    New York Times, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
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“Epode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epode. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.

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