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
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.
—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
Combine this with the melee weapon and shield rune upgrades, and players have several strategies to survive the demon horde onslaught.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 21 May 2025
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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
Combine this with the melee weapon and shield rune upgrades, and players have several strategies to survive the demon horde onslaught.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rune
Noun
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Behind the chronic dissatisfaction, these poem reveal a gentle empathy with a wide embrace.—
Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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The Christine Mayer show came with a poem by Kamps, who also produced artist books.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
27 May 2026
Noun
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Our mother, who had annoyed me deeply throughout most of my life, managed something so heroic that there should have been songs written about her to be sung around campfires by Girl Scouts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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The band has figured out how to flesh out one another’s songs while giving the songwriter who first came up with the idea complete creative control over the composition.—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
3 June 2026
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“Rune.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rune. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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