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Recent Examples of prose
This cheerfully genre-crossing autobiographical novel is told in rhyming couplets with some prose sections interspersed.
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Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
Or just a Fascist? February 22, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes
Does a glorious prose style reflect a glorious quality in a writer’s soul?
—Paul Berman, airmail.news, 22 Feb. 2025
The style was archaic, Elizabethan even, not prose and yet not quite poetry.
—Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
The weird rabid religious compulsion to read Scripture (or the Constitution) like a branch of mathematics, this ostensible allegiance to the Word that is actually terror of it: prose, prose, prose.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
Or just a Fascist? February 22, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes
Does a glorious prose style reflect a glorious quality in a writer’s soul?
—Paul Berman, airmail.news, 22 Feb. 2025
The style was archaic, Elizabethan even, not prose and yet not quite poetry.
—Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
The weird rabid religious compulsion to read Scripture (or the Constitution) like a branch of mathematics, this ostensible allegiance to the Word that is actually terror of it: prose, prose, prose.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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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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His campaign poetry now faces the prosaic work of policy prioritization.—
Alexander C. Kaufman,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2025
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These prosaic details, coming three pages from the end, are shockingly poignant in their invocation of a familiar accouterment of upper-middle-class adolescence.—
Daphne Merkin,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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Burks discovered an interest in medicine through literal accident.—
Kimberly Dishongh,
Arkansas Online,
22 June 2025
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And what good might rise from the literal ashes of their former lives? SOURCE: Map data from OpenStreetMap | Jacob Turcotte/Staff Often, the spotlight on communities impacted by such events starts and ends in the immediate aftermath.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
Christian Science Monitor,
20 June 2025
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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