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Recent Examples of prose
As fiction films do something analogous to what is done in prose forms like the novel and the short story, so nonfiction films can have a broad choice of nonfiction literary models.
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Susan Sontag, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
All three poems incorporate a variety of punctuation, while their capitalization, enjambment, and line breaks generally add up to more than prose without feeling incoherent.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Teach them how to package thinking as IP, not just prose.
—Rhea Wessel, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Along with monogatari, fictional tales drawn from the oral tradition, the first fully Japanese prose texts were women’s autobiographical writings.
—Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
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Susan Sontag, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
All three poems incorporate a variety of punctuation, while their capitalization, enjambment, and line breaks generally add up to more than prose without feeling incoherent.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Teach them how to package thinking as IP, not just prose.
—Rhea Wessel, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Along with monogatari, fictional tales drawn from the oral tradition, the first fully Japanese prose texts were women’s autobiographical writings.
—Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prose
Adjective
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This was an obtuse and unpoetic diktat, a showy way to miss the fact that a song’s history—its use over time, by real people, inspired by the exigencies of ritual and action—can inform its meaning more than its mere lyrics ever could.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2022
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Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.—
Sanjena Sathian,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2021
Adjective
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The entreaties have often fallen flat; the Klaxon can only be sounded so many times before it’s ignored, and, for most people, more prosaic issues govern their daily existence.—
Michael Luo,
New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2026
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If anything, ChatGPT-3 has something of the oracular about it; for as mysterious as the writing process of any author may be in all sorts of intangible and ineffable ways, any person who works in words also understands what’s prosaic and gritty (and thus all the more beautiful) about writing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Instead, the network is a literal series of trains, waystations, and safe houses — a magical realist gesture from Whitehead’s book that Jenkins brings to striking life here.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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There is something healing about what’s coming in for you right now—maybe in a literal, physical sense.—
Steph Koyfman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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