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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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Noun

Some people like to write poems, other people like to perform music, other people like to run marathons.

— We The Action, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Fragments of email correspondence appear alongside bits of dialogue, histories of apocalyptic movements in Korea, and poems about the nature of time and the Bardo (the Tibetan Buddhist concept for the transitional period between death and rebirth).

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of poems

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In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Tech was even still cool in late 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT and everyone started giddily re-doing Taylor Swift lyrics as Shakespearean sonnets.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026

Definition of sonnets

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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.

— Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
A little over a year ago, Paul Simon returned to the road following a seven-year hiatus to promote his new LP Seven Psalms.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2026

Definition of psalms

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In their debut cypher, dropped on the first day of 2026, his mid-tempo slur and curt verses immediately mark him as a descendant of Carti and SahBabii.

— Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 3 July 2026
The whole Pride Night controversy started two weeks ago when four players wrote Bible verses on their rainbow hats, and the fallout ever since has been disastrous.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026

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