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Recent Examples of Synonyms for villanelles
Noun
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If Wyatt and Surrey could pen brilliant sonnets under Tudor tyranny, then certainly great art can be produced under capitalism despite its particular degradations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026 -
Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code.—
Nicole Fraenkel,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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His poems employ numbers significant to Dine (Navajo) thought and ways of life.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2026
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There’s hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of poems in my journals that come right after a sad story or a happy story or whatever.—
Jessica Firger,
SELF,
23 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The photos of the revues, or espectáculos, are indeed odes to the spectacle.—
Bryan Barcena,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson has joined the Silver and Black in silver and black with a new mural at Rudy's Seafood, home to various spray-paint odes to Spurs greats old and new.—
René Guzman,
San Antonio Express-News,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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By weaving together songs, sounds, words, and visuals, Psalms gives audiences a real feel for the broader culture.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Feb. 2026
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Like a typical Catholic Mass, scriptures, psalms and gospels will be read and the Holy Communion will be given.—
Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In Berceuse Parish, there are so many elegies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But while Provo has become developed, its neighbors, Parrish assured me, remain timeless idylls, their empty interiors encircled by endless beaches fringed with casuarina trees.—
Henry Wismayer,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
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But that sequence of prose idylls was the core of the collection.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 2025
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“Villanelles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villanelles. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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