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"The minute readers try to grasp onto traditional notions of subject matter, the poem swerves linguistically, forcing us to find meaning in the substance of sound, of movement. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"Gosling played an inebriated narrator of The Night Before Christmas poem , while Mendes played his wife, asleep in bed. \u2014 Jolene Latimer, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"Meticulously detailed endnotes supply every poem \u2019s bibliographical history and track Auden\u2019s obsessive tinkerings and revisions. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"The poem ended with a powerfully ironic line that may resonate with those now arguing for stronger action on climate change: The world is busy with other news. \u2014 Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 June 2022",
"By the third stanza the poem veers into a lament for the glory that was Greece and a contempt of its modern decadence under foreign tyranny. \u2014 Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
"Th poem is written on her gravestone in its entirety, her father said. \u2014 Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"The poem spread rapidly, virally among Allied soldiers and staff, then worldwide after its first publication that December. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 30 May 2022",
"After seeing a photo of Robb Elementary School students\u2019 backpacks lined up in a row in Uvalde, Texas \u2014 never to be picked up again by the 19 students who were killed in another mass shooting \u2014 the 15-year-old penned this poem . \u2014 Mariam Azeez, Hartford Courant , 27 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For Mohammed, who has designed accessories worn by Former First Lady Michelle Obama and poet laureate Amanda Gorman, the studio has become a vital and necessary safe space to try new things. \u2014 Andr\u00e9-naquian Wheeler, Vogue , 14 June 2022",
"Adrian Matejka, Indiana\u2019s poet laureate from 2018-2019, is still trying to figure out Chicago\u2019s bus system. \u2014 Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"Brian Sonia-Wallace, poet laureate of West Hollywood, California, has traveled the country writing poems for hire. \u2014 Carla K. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com , 17 May 2022",
"Brian Sonia-Wallace, poet laureate of West Hollywood, California, has traveled the country writing poems for hire. \u2014 Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News , 17 May 2022",
"This monthlong series continues and includes an afternoon of outdoor readings by poets laureate from cities across SoCal, curated by Pomona\u2019s own poet laureate , David Judah Oliver. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Oregon\u2019s 10th poet laureate , Anis Mojgani, will serve a second two-year term, Gov. Kate Brown announced Wednesday. \u2014 oregonlive , 11 May 2022",
"Marcus Amaker, who moved to Charleston in 2003 (a cum yah, not a bin yah, as a Gullah speaker would put it) and is the city\u2019s first poet laureate , concurs. \u2014 Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Among the guests was Chile\u2019s de-facto poet laureate , Ra\u00fal Zurita, a bearded man of seventy-two. \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To those who know, Patti Smith, pioneering punk poetess and rock star without peer or precedent, requires no introduction. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"Reimagined as a flowing gown, the look has a new verve, one that speaks to Kente\u2019s timelessness and the youthful exuberance of 23-year-old poetess . \u2014 Vogue , 7 Apr. 2021",
"Sarojini Naidu, poetess , and Madeline Slade, the British admiral's daughter who has been Gandhi's devoted follower for 17 years. Mme. \u2014 Lily Rothman, Time , 9 Aug. 2017"
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"Heti\u2019s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Feb. 2022",
"But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster , an inferior poet. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 June 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The internet certainly doesn\u2019t poeticize it for me. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 29 Aug. 2019",
"Santo Loquasto's set doesn't poeticize the ambience. \u2014 Charles Mcnulty, latimes.com , 10 May 2018"
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"I read the poem in a collection of modern poetry .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The event showcased poetry , music, panel discussions and activities helping Black residents trace their family history. \u2014 Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"The Bay Area was then a hotbed of avant-garde poetry , anchored by the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, which hosted a public reading series, and the bohemian City Lights Bookstore. \u2014 Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic , 17 June 2022",
"The novel, full of dense imagery and metaphor, blends techniques and styles from poetry , memoir and theater, a m\u00e9lange typical of Mr. Lamming\u2019s fiction. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"There will also be poetry , music, and dance performances. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 June 2022",
"Added to this was Aucoin and crew\u2018s strong preference for somber poetry , which would frequently be read or set to music, allowing for a regular flow of darkness. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"Ferndale Juneteenth: Ferndale will celebrate with poetry , storytelling, music, dancing, food and more at the Ferndale Area District Library courtyard, 222 E. 9 Mile Road. \u2014 Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press , 9 June 2022",
"The visual is heroic nonsense, sure, but it\u2019s also stirringly maximalist poetry , the kind of sincere triumphalism that feels absent from peer Hollywood blockbusters. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 7 June 2022",
"Teen Open Mic Night, 7-9 p.m. July 15 through Nov. 18, bimonthly creative outlet for teens, featuring music, poetry and more. \u2014 Cindy Kent, Sun Sentinel , 7 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Her perceptiveness and everyday poeticism add an element of profound introspection to a cautious return to live music. \u2014 Star Tribune , 30 July 2021",
"Shires, the band\u2019s unlikely instigator, has earned recognition for her fiddling virtuosity and cutting poeticism in folk-country, singer-songwriter, and roots-rock circles while observing the country mainstream from a safe yet concerned distance. \u2014 Justin Curto, Vulture , 21 July 2021",
"But Ax did conjure up dreamy poeticism when using the sustaining pedal and toss off sparkling runs. \u2014 Tim Diovanni, Dallas News , 16 Apr. 2021",
"This being a debut, Ms. Mozley is eager to showcase her writing chops, with the result that the prose can become terribly clotted with poeticisms . \u2014 Sam Sacks, WSJ , 7 Dec. 2017",
"McGregor\u2019s game is taunting and preening, with hardly a trace of Ali\u2019s wit or poeticism . \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 13 July 2017",
"That script could stand to trim some self-conscious poeticism and to smooth a few uneven plot points (the most egregious, near the end, finds Charles strangely materializing at an all-too-convenient moment). \u2014 Ken Jaworowski, New York Times , 14 Mar. 2017"
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"your description of the sun setting over the Grand Canyon was a particularly poetic piece of writing",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Then there are the names, as poetic as the sagas behind them. \u2014 Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"The pieces are often poetic , some more overt and others are more covert and concealed to be shared only by the giver and recipient. \u2014 Beth Bernstein, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"The design process was beautiful and poetic in many ways. \u2014 Chiharu Masukawa, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 June 2022",
"Ahhhh, the elegance of the golf lexicon and its jingling notes, alternately so poetic and clever. \u2014 Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News , 11 June 2022",
"That can\u2019t be easy to direct, but Delicia Turner Sonnenberg\u2019s staging is haunting and poetic . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 May 2022",
"Anxiety was the theme of Joyce Kim\u2019s Art of Public Speaking collection, which captured the physical effects of the condition in ways literal and poetic . \u2014 Vogue , 23 May 2022",
"As a woman and her newborn try and find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in an intimate and poetic portrayal of family survival and hope. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 May 2022",
"Ravel\u2019s reliably rapturous Piano Concerto in G \u2014 gave an astonishing show of her proficiency and poetic sensibilities. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022"
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"The collection evolved from there into Monica\u2019s distinctive twist on some of her favorite antique and vintage pieces\u2014charms, poesy rings and celestial motifs. \u2014 Beth Bernstein, Forbes , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Expect to use up multiple pens on this novel in verse, an elegiac meditation on poesy and religion. \u2014 Katie Ward Beim-esche, The Christian Science Monitor , 23 Mar. 2018",
"Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s adaptation of T. S. Eliot\u2019s feline poesy ends its Broadway revival. \u2014 Alexis Soloski, New York Times , 21 Dec. 2017"
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"Emily Dickinson is famous as the poet who rarely left the house but often journeyed to the depths of the human heart.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But McCraney is a poet , not a moralistic ideologue or a political propagandist happy to play to the choir. \u2014 Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"Dear Thomas, Andreas Kleinert\u2019s black-and-white artistic biopic of the late poet , writer, and film director Thomas Brasch, has won the Lola for best film at the 2022 German Film Awards. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 June 2022",
"No poet legislated so ambitiously or disastrously, either. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
"The film is an inspiring and timely tale about a 12-year-old Syrian refugee who flees the violence of her country, and looks to a gifted book of poetry by the famous 13th-century poet , Rumi, as a source of strength. \u2014 Manori Ravindran, Variety , 23 June 2022",
"There are inspiring words from people like Langston Hughes, the poet , social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist who was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. \u2014 Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"Romare Bearden was a fascinating artist, poet , and songwriter who could have passed for White but refused to do so. \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 19 June 2022",
"Among the performers is a house poet , ready to sing any nation\u2019s honors for hire. \u2014 Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
"Gorman, the nation\u2019s youngest inaugural poet and our April book club author, also used her platform to take action, raising money on Instagram for the Everytown for Gun Safety campaign. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The internet certainly doesn\u2019t poeticize it for me. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 29 Aug. 2019",
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"After the way he treated his staff, it was poetic justice that he lost his job.",
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"Whether or not Sussmann beats the rap, though, there is some poetic justice here. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 21 May 2022",
"In an ironic twist of poetic justice , the current availability of vaccines is now thwarted by alarming levels of vaccine hesitancy that portend an uncertain future. \u2014 David Walcott, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"Still not fair, but at least a little poetic justice . \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 27 Apr. 2022",
"So as the Cougars prepare to face Gonzaga on the road Thursday, there\u2019s a desire for some poetic justice in Knell\u2019s eyes. \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Jan. 2022",
"There\u2019s some poetic justice to the fact that the religious tropes that have taken hold in Latin music \u2014 the Garden, the Flood, the Song of Songs \u2014 are closely connected to multicultural pagan sources. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Competition isn\u2019t the place to seek poetic justice . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Cage\u2019s detractors find poetic justice in the fact that much of his recent work has gone straight to video on demand, with no theatrical release. \u2014 Dan Piepenbring, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Yet in an odd bit of poetic justice , their names get forgotten instead. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 1 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Of course, train robbery is such a familiar term that perhaps there is poetic license . \u2014 WSJ , 1 Feb. 2022",
"However, the victim inevitably would have died from shock and blood loss very early on in the process, so the final fluttering of the lungs is likely poetic license . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 10 Jan. 2022",
"The language of burning is poetic license , or should be: No one wants to eat rice that\u2019s actually been burned. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Of course, that's a bit of poetic license ; Kirk is, after all, a fictional character. \u2014 Don Lincoln, CNN , 12 Oct. 2021",
"To put a life, or an act of creation, on-screen means speaking in movie language, always its own kind of poetic license to begin with; to put a life of music on the screen invites even more hyperbole and exaggeration. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Suddenly, what was originally just an ethereal touch of poetic license becomes an extended flight of surrealism. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 June 2021",
"What seemed like poetic license used to make a point now seems steeped in elements of reality. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 24 Oct. 2020",
"Basically this is a Texas history book dressed up with poetic license in the form of a novel. \u2014 Andrew Dansby, ExpressNews.com , 31 May 2020"
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"love letters that were filled with poetical phrases",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But inspiration that even another artist can hear, and a painter can listen to and paint his greatest painting because of the poetical words that\u2019s passing through his mind. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Barclay distilled the play and music to about two hours, translated the poetical spoken text into modern-day, vernacular English, and interpolated contemporary references to engage audiences and elicit laughter. \u2014 Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Gurney counted among his friends the composer Ralph Vaughn Williams, who became a mentor and a champion of his music, as well as the war poets Edmund Blunden and F.W. Harvey, who recognized Gurney\u2019s remarkable poetical gifts. \u2014 David Yezzi, WSJ , 16 July 2021",
"This ingredient is as classic as Ivory soap\u2014and, like that product, possessed of a pristine snowy-white visual appeal and a buoyancy both literal and poetical . \u2014 Forest Evashevski, WSJ , 14 July 2021",
"The vision of a father in a suit and tie receiving the poetical embellishments of his children would have been as remote as an account of an Aztec coronation. \u2014 Star Tribune , 18 June 2021",
"It\u2019s not a pedantic comparison, the political Yeats and poetical Pearse. \u2014 Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes , 20 May 2021",
"However, publishers of this paper haven\u2019t always been supportive of poetical aspirations. \u2014 Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Apr. 2021",
"The audience, for Gorman, is not an abstraction but a collaborator in her mode of rousing, outward-facing, and civic-minded poetical speech. \u2014 Doreen St. F\u00e9lix, Vogue , 7 Apr. 2021"
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"the house we stayed in \u2026 was itself a poem",
"\u2014 H. J. Laski"
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"He wrote a poem about his parents.",
"your assignment is to write two poems about springtime",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The minute readers try to grasp onto traditional notions of subject matter, the poem swerves linguistically, forcing us to find meaning in the substance of sound, of movement. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"Gosling played an inebriated narrator of The Night Before Christmas poem , while Mendes played his wife, asleep in bed. \u2014 Jolene Latimer, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"Meticulously detailed endnotes supply every poem \u2019s bibliographical history and track Auden\u2019s obsessive tinkerings and revisions. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"The poem ended with a powerfully ironic line that may resonate with those now arguing for stronger action on climate change: The world is busy with other news. \u2014 Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 June 2022",
"By the third stanza the poem veers into a lament for the glory that was Greece and a contempt of its modern decadence under foreign tyranny. \u2014 Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
"Th poem is written on her gravestone in its entirety, her father said. \u2014 Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"The poem spread rapidly, virally among Allied soldiers and staff, then worldwide after its first publication that December. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 30 May 2022",
"After seeing a photo of Robb Elementary School students\u2019 backpacks lined up in a row in Uvalde, Texas \u2014 never to be picked up again by the 19 students who were killed in another mass shooting \u2014 the 15-year-old penned this poem . \u2014 Mariam Azeez, Hartford Courant , 27 May 2022"
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"poetry in motion":{
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"-it",
"\u02c8p\u014d-\u0259t",
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"rimester",
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"examples":[
"Emily Dickinson is famous as the poet who rarely left the house but often journeyed to the depths of the human heart.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But McCraney is a poet , not a moralistic ideologue or a political propagandist happy to play to the choir. \u2014 Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"Dear Thomas, Andreas Kleinert\u2019s black-and-white artistic biopic of the late poet , writer, and film director Thomas Brasch, has won the Lola for best film at the 2022 German Film Awards. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 June 2022",
"No poet legislated so ambitiously or disastrously, either. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
"The film is an inspiring and timely tale about a 12-year-old Syrian refugee who flees the violence of her country, and looks to a gifted book of poetry by the famous 13th-century poet , Rumi, as a source of strength. \u2014 Manori Ravindran, Variety , 23 June 2022",
"There are inspiring words from people like Langston Hughes, the poet , social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist who was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. \u2014 Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"Romare Bearden was a fascinating artist, poet , and songwriter who could have passed for White but refused to do so. \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 19 June 2022",
"Among the performers is a house poet , ready to sing any nation\u2019s honors for hire. \u2014 Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
"Gorman, the nation\u2019s youngest inaugural poet and our April book club author, also used her platform to take action, raising money on Instagram for the Everytown for Gun Safety campaign. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 May 2022"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French poete , from Latin poeta , from Greek poi\u0113t\u0113s maker, poet, from poiein to make; akin to Sanskrit cinoti he gathers, heaps up":""
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"Greek poi\u0113matikos , from poi\u0113mat-, poi\u0113ma + -ikos -ic":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Her films reimagine characters borrowed from politics, mythology, geology or science and travel across different dimensions of time and space, addressing the issues of an uncertain future through specific narratives and poetics . \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 25 June 2022",
"The point is the poetics of it all, the atmosphere, the vibe. \u2014 Vogue , 17 June 2022",
"The building block of the internet is a referential, signifying, mimetic, poetics . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Knight was shooting for the British fashion magazine i-D and creating ad campaigns for designer Yohji Yamamoto; Chipperfield was working in Japan, getting a crash course in materiality and the poetics of space. \u2014 Sarah Medford, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Her writing is a testament to the passionate poetics of Black performance. \u2014 Lynn\u00e9e Denise, Los Angeles Times , 18 Dec. 2021",
"White focused on the poetics of nature; Friedlander, the movement of people in the city; and Siskind, the visual language of urban wear and tear \u2014 sidewalk cracks, broken bricks and poster remnants. \u2014 Danielle Avram, Dallas News , 29 June 2021",
"Jenkins and Whitehead use identity politics \u2014 identity poetics \u2014 for race-baiting. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 12 May 2021",
"This feels almost the opposite of the usual poetics of recipes, where they\u2019re framed as a bridge across time. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 14 Apr. 2021"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a method of excavating in which soft water-bearing formations are first artificially frozen and then mined while still solid":[]
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": a supposed method of development occurring in invertebrate animals where in the same species there are two kinds of young although the adults are exactly alike":[]
"the poem is a mere tumbled out spate \u2026 of poeticalities",
"\u2014 F. R. Leavis"
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": a group including the kangaroos and related forms":[]
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"New Latin, from Greek po\u0113phaga , neuter plural of po\u0113phagos grass-eating, from poa grass + -phagos -phagous":""
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"poecil- + Greek kyttaros cell of a honeycomb + English -ous":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-032245"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Of course, train robbery is such a familiar term that perhaps there is poetic license . \u2014 WSJ , 1 Feb. 2022",
"However, the victim inevitably would have died from shock and blood loss very early on in the process, so the final fluttering of the lungs is likely poetic license . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 10 Jan. 2022",
"The language of burning is poetic license , or should be: No one wants to eat rice that\u2019s actually been burned. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Of course, that's a bit of poetic license ; Kirk is, after all, a fictional character. \u2014 Don Lincoln, CNN , 12 Oct. 2021",
"To put a life, or an act of creation, on-screen means speaking in movie language, always its own kind of poetic license to begin with; to put a life of music on the screen invites even more hyperbole and exaggeration. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Suddenly, what was originally just an ethereal touch of poetic license becomes an extended flight of surrealism. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 June 2021",
"What seemed like poetic license used to make a point now seems steeped in elements of reality. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 24 Oct. 2020",
"Basically this is a Texas history book dressed up with poetic license in the form of a novel. \u2014 Andrew Dansby, ExpressNews.com , 31 May 2020"
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"1819, in the meaning defined above":""
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