sonnets

plural of sonnet

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Recent Examples of sonnets Stewart lent his voice to all 154 of William Shakespeare’s sonnets, including reflections on the narration process, in the 2026 audiobook Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sonnets
Noun
  • In 1981 she was honored with the Jnanpith Award, one of India’s most prestigious literary awards, for her collection of poems titled Kagaz Te Canvas.
    — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Her work links poems and artworks to questions of justice, belonging and national memory.
    — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Not so, the guitarist affirms, while acknowledging that the lyrics could be read that way.
    — Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The band’s inscrutable lyrics and ramshackle approach make for songs that feel like unintentional and effortless anthems, rock ’n’ roll castoffs that catalyzed new possibilities.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 10 Nov. 2026

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“Sonnets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sonnets. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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