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Recent Examples of prose
The use of police brutality as ecological metaphor—I’m not sure that’s allowed either, and Mike’s prose style had bravura and pyrotechnics that are not normal in that arena either, any more than was his passionate engagement on behalf of the underdogs and outsiders.
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Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2024
His prose style hasn’t matured either, thank heavens.
—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
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Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2024
His prose style hasn’t matured either, thank heavens.
—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
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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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Together, these threads form a lopsided and sometimes prosaic film.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
18 May 2025
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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
Adjective
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Five-time Emmy nominee Connie Britton has a case of imposter syndrome… in the literal sense.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
7 Aug. 2025
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There’s a literal meaning, and then there’s a figurative meaning.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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