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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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Throughout, the depth and quality of Sullivan’s attention to prosaic detail—even plain and unappealing objects—never wavers.—
The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
26 Dec. 2025
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The roots of these songs, though, are more prosaic.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
21 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Things got especially unhinged when the songs referenced a presenter's literal name.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
12 Jan. 2026
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The premiere of Today with Jenna & Sheinelle kicked off with a (very literal) passing of the torch.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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