as in poem
a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
wrote many mournful runes after her lover's untimely death
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Recent Examples of rune
The hot, scarred night of Mustafar is never-changing, the cave lit by the eternal glow of the ancient runes.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
That Joyce was Svevo’s English teacher and Borges studied runes.
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Ayşegül Savaş,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
Reading the runes of the Apple special event invites is always interesting.
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David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
The speculation about the new album has been accompanied by a recent revamp of F+TM’s official website, which was wiped and updated with a landing page spotlighting a cryptic rune featuring two capital T’s along with four surrounding moon phases over a picture of a windswept field.
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Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
12 Aug. 2025
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
That Joyce was Svevo’s English teacher and Borges studied runes.
—
Ayşegül Savaş,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
Reading the runes of the Apple special event invites is always interesting.
—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
The speculation about the new album has been accompanied by a recent revamp of F+TM’s official website, which was wiped and updated with a landing page spotlighting a cryptic rune featuring two capital T’s along with four surrounding moon phases over a picture of a windswept field.
—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rune
Noun
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Spiro borrows part of that message from the famous poet Nikki Giovanni, who recorded her poem of that same name as a song in 1975 with producer Arif Mardin, making for the only sample or interpolation on the album.
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Helena Bonham Carter, there’s a TikTok of her reading a Mary Oliver poem.
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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“Rune.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rune. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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