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Recent Examples of prose
His prose style hasn’t matured either, thank heavens.
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Dwight Garner, New York Times, 19 May 2025
His prose style is masterful and humorously conversational.
—Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2025
This cheerfully genre-crossing autobiographical novel is told in rhyming couplets with some prose sections interspersed.
—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
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Dwight Garner, New York Times, 19 May 2025
His prose style is masterful and humorously conversational.
—Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2025
This cheerfully genre-crossing autobiographical novel is told in rhyming couplets with some prose sections interspersed.
—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
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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Think about the massive productivity implications of work divided in the creation of something so prosaic.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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Lippert and Broe’s script veers into more prosaic territory as Johan gets desperate and starts over-compensating, for instance by dipping into the door takings at Adonis to help pay for William’s surgery.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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The spa is at the center of Forestis, both in literal location and in spirit.—
Hannah Freedman,
Travel + Leisure,
13 July 2025
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And why is the punishment for disobedience akin to literal torture?—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 July 2025
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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