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Recent Examples of prose
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.
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Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Many thriller writers use this to their advantage, switching up their prose style to match the energy of the scene.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
Han, 53, began her career with a group of poems in a South Korean magazine, before making her prose debut in 1995 with a short story collection.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024
Coincidentally, prose writer Percival Everett (American Fiction) recently released his own take on this subject, James (Doubleday, 2024), which garnered big sales and critical plaudits.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Many thriller writers use this to their advantage, switching up their prose style to match the energy of the scene.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
Han, 53, began her career with a group of poems in a South Korean magazine, before making her prose debut in 1995 with a short story collection.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024
Coincidentally, prose writer Percival Everett (American Fiction) recently released his own take on this subject, James (Doubleday, 2024), which garnered big sales and critical plaudits.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 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
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Turns out there might be a more prosaic answer: Clint Eastwood’s 1979 classic Escape From Alcatraz was shown on a South Florida PBS station the night before.—
Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
5 May 2025
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But instead of starting in the high-profile condo division, Jon Paul had to start on the more prosaic rental business.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Lynx were literal seconds away from a ring last year.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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What to do with that $35 billion in debt created by the literal creation of Warner Bros. Discovery.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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