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also rime
as in to coincide
to be in agreement on every point
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also rime
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Recent Examples of rhyme
Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2025
For younger toddlers who haven’t quite hit preschool yet, there’s even a collection of counting videos that use rhymes and adorable animals to explain the basics of their 1, 2, 3s.
—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 5 Aug. 2025
Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Told in rhyming verse, the story follows Mia and her mommy on their Saturday morning trip to the grocery store.
—Essence, 7 Aug. 2025
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Verb
There’ll be plenty of rhyme and reason for all.
—Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2025
For younger toddlers who haven’t quite hit preschool yet, there’s even a collection of counting videos that use rhymes and adorable animals to explain the basics of their 1, 2, 3s.
—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
The fictional universe of these records also rhymes with the circumstances of Anhedönia’s youth.
—Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Told in rhyming verse, the story follows Mia and her mommy on their Saturday morning trip to the grocery store.
—Essence, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhyme
Verb
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That sentiment has coincided with plummeting sales of Teslas, particularly in Europe.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Williams, 92, is a Jamaican immigrant with end-stage kidney disease whose roof, parts of which are nine and 19 years old, began to leak after a period of heavy weather in late September that coincided with the passage of Hurricane Helene.—
Mario Ariza,
ProPublica,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Pittsburgh Pirates’ right fielder was poetry on the diamond, a five-tool player who helped his team to two World Series championships but amazingly was a bit underrated at the time.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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This deepening also has an index in the formal features of his poetry—the ambiguity of his pronouns, the firm particularity of his register of images—which teeters between the mundane and the epiphanic, and renders this imbalance itself into view.—
Elaine L. Wang
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The entity lists an address that corresponds to a San Francisco office of the Jordan Park Group, a financial investment company.—
Sara B. Hansen,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025
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Similarly, Whitehouse is not yet the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a title that tends to correspond, roughly, to tenure.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Drake isn’t the only person in the Degrassi-verse who’s been taking legal action lately.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Pärt often lets the number of syllables in a word, the length of a phrase or verse, and the sound of a language shape his formulas.—
Jeffers Engelhardt,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Kosann and Mirojnick designed three core styles for the collection: a poesy ring, a charm and a locket.—
EJ Panaligan,
Variety,
15 Nov. 2022
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What makes the collection particularly unique is Kosann’s approach to reinventing classics—like the lockets, charms, and poesy rings that she’s reinterpreted in the past—but also Evert’s unique experience of being so connected to the tennis bracelet.—
Kristen Bateman,
Vogue,
17 Aug. 2022
Noun
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At the end of their week, campers get a chance to perform their band’s songs live with the stars.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Why not gather all their best songs to date, tape ‘em in front of an excited fanbase, and give em another shot?—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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From minstrelsy to cake walks to the chitlin circuit, the audience has always been crucial to the context.—
Lauren Morrow
September 9,
Literary Hub,
9 Sep. 2025
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The minstrelsy of late-night-TV activism Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart protested the cancellation by CBS of his cohort Stephen Colbert’s Late Show by staging an appalling musical routine on The Daily Show, circling the wagons in Colbert’s defense.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 July 2025
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“Rhyme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhyme. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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