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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
Pat's Irish Coffee ($13), on the beverage menu, is an ode to Foster’s grandfather, who loved to sip on the breakfast cocktail back in San Francisco, where it’s said to have been invented.
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 16 July 2025
But the thing that distinguishes Dollywood is its odes to Dolly Parton.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 28 July 2025
Some of Braddock’s eight grandchildren escorted his casket out of the church, as an ode to UM — the university’s fight song — played.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 27 July 2025
Where to eat At Bywater American Bistro, James Beard Award–winning chef Nina Compton and her team create dishes of roasted Gulf fish and wagyu beef lasagna as an ode to global comfort foods.
—Kristin Braswell, AFAR Media, 23 July 2025
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 16 July 2025
But the thing that distinguishes Dollywood is its odes to Dolly Parton.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 28 July 2025
Some of Braddock’s eight grandchildren escorted his casket out of the church, as an ode to UM — the university’s fight song — played.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 27 July 2025
Where to eat At Bywater American Bistro, James Beard Award–winning chef Nina Compton and her team create dishes of roasted Gulf fish and wagyu beef lasagna as an ode to global comfort foods.
—Kristin Braswell, AFAR Media, 23 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
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Three guitars created interlocking ’80s-rock-style arpeggio support for the first verse in the final version, highlighting the pace while allowing the lyrics to dominate.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
15 Aug. 2025
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Arthur bankrolled the building with $3 million in profits from his wildly successful 1924 operetta Rose-Marie, whose book and lyrics were written by his son Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Aug. 2025
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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
Noun
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Perfectionism often gets misunderstood as an unstoppable striving for excellence, a quality that many of us would love to (half-heartedly) lament.—
Caroline Mimbs Nyce,
New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2025
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Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal—for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
1 Aug. 2025
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The historical epic, indeed, carries more weight than anything the duo has worked on before; the story is embedded in their DNA.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Jason Momoa brings his considerable presence and star power to this historical epic set in Hawaii during the period of unification and colonoization, in the late 1700s and early 1800s.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
31 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 duo’s 2024 soft-rock ballad — which took home the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance earlier this year — also garnered nods for Best Collaboration and Best Pop Song.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
5 Aug. 2025
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Standing in place before finally dropping to her knees, without the slightest of scenic distractions, Erivo made the show’s signature epic ballad her own for six minutes.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Ode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ode. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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