as in poems
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 runes
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
Reading the runes of the Apple special event invites is always interesting.
—David Phelan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
Reading the runes of the Apple special event invites is always interesting.
—David Phelan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for runes
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Still, such men recorded the poems, songs, myths, stories and place names of Tonga, and without such records, the stories of (mythical?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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Same-sex desire also appears throughout Virgil’s pastoral poems, the Eclogues.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Hansen Yang – hounded by over a dozen Chinese media members there to chronicle his every move – launched jumpers while Mandarin pop songs blared through the arena.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
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Instead of the traditional alternation of sung-text recitative and arias (songs), verismo operas are more seamless in how songs are interwoven with the story.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Runes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/runes. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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