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Recent Examples of prose
Coincidentally, prose writer Percival Everett (American Fiction) recently released his own take on this subject, James (Doubleday, 2024), which garnered big sales and critical plaudits.
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Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Her cool, detached prose style became synonymous with New Journalism in the 1960s and ’70s.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
Librettists supplied composers with heaps of verse for arias and other vocal numbers, alongside chunks of prose recitative that allowed for interstitial exposition.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
His prose choices create a friendly, highly accessible understanding of character and setting.
—Meg Elison, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
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Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Her cool, detached prose style became synonymous with New Journalism in the 1960s and ’70s.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
Librettists supplied composers with heaps of verse for arias and other vocal numbers, alongside chunks of prose recitative that allowed for interstitial exposition.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
His prose choices create a friendly, highly accessible understanding of character and setting.
—Meg Elison, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prose
Adjective
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This was an obtuse and unpoetic diktat, a showy way to miss the fact that a song’s history—its use over time, by real people, inspired by the exigencies of ritual and action—can inform its meaning more than its mere lyrics ever could.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2022
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Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.—
Sanjena Sathian,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2021
Adjective
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That might be related to something as prosaic as housing costs, which have driven many people to move in with their parents—and away from where their friends live.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2025
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There are more prosaic kinds of retaliation: having difficulty renewing passports, getting audited by the IRS and losing federal pensions.—
Byron Tau,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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With Philly fans in town, that just might be literal: the Big Easy might have to count their Romeo catchers when big game crowds go home.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
8 Feb. 2025
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The simplest, most literal answer: Erickson likes the instrument.—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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