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limericks

noun

plural of limerick

as in poems

a humorous rhyming composition of five lines She recited an old limerick which elicited guffaws from the crowd

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Recent Examples of limericks The study picked 10 commercial large language models by top tech companies — including Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI — and asked the AI systems to make critical pamphlets, write limericks, give reasons if someone should join protests, and more. — Didi Tang, Fortune, 16 July 2026

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Noun

Instead of collectivity, there is a certain kind of animal community, or one that the poems’ speakers—children, old men, drunks, prostitutes—often stand apart from.

— Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
The poems push against the binaries of leaving and being left and embrace ongoing love in the wake of loss.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of poems

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People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

Definition of sonnets

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Psalm 23 is numbered Psalm 22 in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate because of differences in how the psalms are divided and numbered.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026
Because the psalms were originally accompanied by instruments, scholars’ best guess is that selah was some sort of musical marking.

— Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

Definition of psalms

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Nature, loss, and longing inspire these quiet verses, which conjure a sense of the immense mysteries governing the observable world.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Maluma’s playful, confident verses add another layer of flirtation, while Shakira’s unmistakable vocals bring both sensuality and command to the track.

— Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of verses

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