Thesaurus results for RUNE

rune

noun

ˈrün

as in poem

a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect wrote many mournful runes after her lover's untimely death

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Recent Examples of rune That Joyce was Svevo’s English teacher and Borges studied runes. —

Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025 Reading the runes of the Apple special event invites is always interesting. —

David Phelan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025 The speculation about the new album has been accompanied by a recent revamp of F+TM’s official website, which was wiped and updated with a landing page spotlighting a cryptic rune featuring two capital T’s along with four surrounding moon phases over a picture of a windswept field. —

Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2025 Combine this with the melee weapon and shield rune upgrades, and players have several strategies to survive the demon horde onslaught. —

Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for rune

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The literary début of the Auto-Beatnik, a machine that could compose five thousand poems in an hour or so, caught the attention of Time, Life, and the Times.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Puskin was sent into exile by Tsar Alexander I after his poem Ode to Liberty was found among the possessions of the rebels of the Decemberist uprising.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026