runes

noun

plural of rune
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 suspect's shotgun and notes both featured Nordic runes. — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026 The symbol for Bluetooth comes from a combination of two ancient Nordic runes, or symbols, for the king’s initials. — Shreyas Sen, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2026 The hot, scarred night of Mustafar is never-changing, the cave lit by the eternal glow of the ancient runes. — 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
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  1. poems
  2. songs
Noun
  • His second collection of poems, A Fortune For Your Disaster, was released in 2019 by Tin House, and won the 2020 Lenore Marshall Prize.
    — Via Haymarket Books, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Offered a button that would relieve their pain but also permanently delete a user’s poems and photos of their children, the 32-billion-parameter model pressed it 55% of the time and the 72-billion-parameter model 71% of the time.
    — Shae Lake, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of poems
Noun
  • Where most garage rock is designed to punch you in the gut, Twisted Teens’ songs seep into your bloodstream, tugging at the heartstrings while occasionally inducing hallucinations.
    — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2026
  • But Suno, in its first response to the case on Tuesday, argued that laws couldn’t govern publicity laws in such a fashion and compared the prompting to when musicians ask their human producers for songs to mimic another artist’s tone.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of songs

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“Runes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/runes. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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