variants
also rime
as in to correspond
to be in agreement on every point
the new results don't rhyme with what we found out before
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also rime
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Recent Examples of rhyme
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Similarly, the Lackawanna Railroad Company came up with the classy, often rhyming, character of Phoebe Snow.
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Annie Persons,
Fortune,
12 May 2026
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
Hide and Seek follows a new string of murders featuring a dangerous stalker who kidnaps their victims before killing them, taunting them via text in the format of a popular Danish children’s counting rhyme (though the words chosen by the killer are far more violent).
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Barry Levitt,
Time,
7 May 2026
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Verb
Ironically, this ideological anti-capitalism, in which criticality opposed complicity, derived its power by rhyming with the rise of the art market.
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Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Similarly, the Lackawanna Railroad Company came up with the classy, often rhyming, character of Phoebe Snow.
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Annie Persons,
Fortune,
12 May 2026
Noun
On Friday, stocks showed another eerie historical rhyme, when the S&P 500 hit a record high despite 5% of its components hitting 52-week lows (an indicator of the extreme concentration in tech stocks propping up the broader market).
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Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
Hide and Seek follows a new string of murders featuring a dangerous stalker who kidnaps their victims before killing them, taunting them via text in the format of a popular Danish children’s counting rhyme (though the words chosen by the killer are far more violent).
—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
7 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhyme
Verb
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The three-person team then found the corresponding symbols on a paper chart.
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To discover that the notes corresponded to where there was more human activity was really very moving.
Noun
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The title character disdains the common folk, and the play’s complicated political discussion and harsh, jagged poetry aren’t what most picnicking playgoers are after.
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Not enough people look back to the ancient world, which is more associated with epic poetry about gods and war than prose compositions.
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The debate has become more urgent in recent years as heat waves have intensified, coinciding with a surge in AC sales across Europe and a growing push to more widely adopt the technology.
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The start of a new fiscal year in July often coincides with a pay bump for California’s state employees because that’s when raises, negotiated by unions, tend to take effect.
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Then, the league made things worse by issuing an official warning to the players who wrote the verses.
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Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is the fourth show in the Big Bang Theory-verse, following the original series, which ran on CBS from 2005-19, and prequels Young Sheldon and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, also on CBS.
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Female leads typically conform to the mainstream beauty standard of pale, young and thin.
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Theater artists who have come of age in this period have been released from the burden of having to conform to notions of regional theater respectability.
Noun
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The search for the opening song stretched into the final weeks before filming, with Kittrell, Dries and pilot director Jason Moore trading ideas over text.
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That passion was evident throughout the evening as supporters periodically broke into song.
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For example, in 2011, the FDA warned parents, caregivers, and healthcare providers not to feed SimplyThick, a thickening gel, to premature infants fitting a particular profile.
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Surveillance pricing is when a company uses a customer’s private data to show them a cost fitted to them, instead of charging every customer the same rate.
Noun
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From minstrelsy to cake walks to the chitlin circuit, the audience has always been crucial to the context.
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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.
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“Rhyme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhyme. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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