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
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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This isn’t the terrifying Frost of modernist criticism—although the poem is fully aware of darkness, and its world, on the cusp of World War I, like ours, certainly had its terrors.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
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Among her legion of fans are Stephen Colbert, Steve Buscemi, and Helena Bonham Carter who read from her poems in the documentary.— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2026
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Josh is a skeptic who gets itchy whenever actors burst into song; Melissa is a believer who longs for a romance so transcendent that it can be expressed only in an airy glissando, opted up an octave.— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
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The album, which is comprised almost wholly of covers spanning yacht rock mainstays, also includes one original Urban song to round the package out.— Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
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“Rune.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/rune. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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