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Recent Examples of trimeter
Especially after a late first trimeter loss, but also possibly beneficial after early loss.
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Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 29 July 2024
Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 29 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trimeter
Noun
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At a rate of roughly one verse per minute, Clark’s invention could compose striking Latin hexameters.—
Laurent Dubreuil,
Harper's Magazine,
22 May 2024
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On the other, the Satires and Epistles, loose, talky poems written, like the Ars, in dactylic hexameter.—
Gregory Hays,
The New York Review of Books,
27 May 2020
Noun
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A couple of regional and college theaters are ending their regular seasons in April with Shakespeare plays, and a couple of other events are on tap to keep the iambic pentameter flowing.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
20 Apr. 2025
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The dialogue is both realist, full of the ejaculations and repetitions that characterize human speech, and poetic, with only the occasional anapest interrupting the poem’s iambic pentameter.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The physical symptoms of anxiety, racing thoughts, tightness in the chest, and excess energy can be redirected into movement (exercise), mindfulness, or strategic thinking.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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Barragan said he was shaped by his upbringing in the Kern County town of Delano, where his family was active in the United Farm Workers movement that staged marches, boycotts and strikes in defiance of powerful Central Valley growers in the 1960s and ‘70s.—
Libor Jany,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Trimeter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trimeter. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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