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Recent Examples of prose
One of the headiest things about Adult Braces is how West’s prose style was pickled in the mid-2010s, so her use of caps lock and exclamation marks acted on me as a powerful Proustian madeleine.
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Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2026
Generally this means books that are prose-light, plot-forward, and propulsive.
—Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
When Mayor Mamdani released his preliminary budget last week, the public got to see what governing with prose looks like.
—Paul Francis, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2026
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.
—Susan Sontag, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
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Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2026
Generally this means books that are prose-light, plot-forward, and propulsive.
—Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
When Mayor Mamdani released his preliminary budget last week, the public got to see what governing with prose looks like.
—Paul Francis, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2026
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.
—Susan Sontag, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for prose
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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Similarly, the cast wrings some poetry out of the prosaic, often aphoristic dialogue.—
Robert Lloyd,
Houston Chronicle,
1 May 2026
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But what Danielson says was intended as a symbolic protest escalated dramatically amid paranoid fantasies, prosaic miscommunications, and the false report of a gun.—
Tessa Stuart,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Teaming up with Lucian to find the cure, Jim goes on an adventure through the city that brings him up close with all the tribes Jim would usually shun, from submissives in pup masks to shady but protective drag queens to the bears — amusingly depicted here as literal bears.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
15 May 2026
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And the Not Fair League made that literal.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
15 May 2026
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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