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sonnets

noun

plural of sonnet

as in poems

a composition made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern He wrote gushy sonnets to his girlfriend when he was away at camp.

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Recent Examples of sonnets People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026 In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed. — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026 Tech was even still cool in late 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT and everyone started giddily re-doing Taylor Swift lyrics as Shakespearean sonnets. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026 Performance That Relies On Deep Institutional Reasoning Frontier models are extraordinary at problems that are truly novel, ambiguous and wide—writing sonnets, solving math olympiad problems, debugging Python code. — Anshul Gupta, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026 After all, no poet talks seriously about doing statistical regression on sonnets to find the optimal ones. — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026 Recently reissued by original label Rough Trade Records, Songs to Remember epitomizes the group’s attempt to reconcile an art-school background, 1977-era punk ethics, and an obsession with chart pop into a musical statement as stately and cohesive as a book of sonnets. — Alfred Soto, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2026 Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code. — Nicole Fraenkel, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026 The character is speaking sonnets and doing ‘Ozymandias’ as well. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Feb. 2026

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The report included evidence of creepy poems and consistent messages to both employees, neither of whom are named in the panel's findings.

— Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
In a voice at once biting and contemplative, eerie and funny, Kasischke crafts poems in which nothing is ever stable or resolved.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

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The live-to-film concert will present an orchestral performance of the score from John Powell and Stephen Schwartz, who also helmed music and lyrics.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026
And the most popular musical group, in terms of how frequently their songs and lyrics appear in the scientific literature, is The Beatles, according to a new paper published in the journal PLoS ONE.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026

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