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a composition in verse in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something
This poem is titled, "An Ode to My Mother."
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Recent Examples of ode
But the film does succeed as an effectively warm ode to a family dynamic not frequently represented in popular media.
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Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 20 May 2025
The intimate, 10-table restaurant is an ode to local farming, seasonal produce and warm hospitality.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2025
From the second line of Robert Macfarlane’s new ode to nature, I was caught in the current, rushed along the rapids of his exploration into a question with fundamental consequences: Is this river — that river, any river — alive?
—Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Learn More De la Rocha’s forthcoming book is an ode to his profound and emotionally complicated relationship with his late father.
—Mike De La Rocha, Outside Online, 13 May 2025
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Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 20 May 2025
The intimate, 10-table restaurant is an ode to local farming, seasonal produce and warm hospitality.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2025
From the second line of Robert Macfarlane’s new ode to nature, I was caught in the current, rushed along the rapids of his exploration into a question with fundamental consequences: Is this river — that river, any river — alive?
—Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Learn More De la Rocha’s forthcoming book is an ode to his profound and emotionally complicated relationship with his late father.
—Mike De La Rocha, Outside Online, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ode
Noun
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The poems walk the line between paranoid survivalism and the vulnerability and care that fuel collective liberation.—
Isle McElroy,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
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The mirrors reflecting the best poems are slightly warped so that reading feels like staring into rippling passages.—
Terrance Hayes,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation.—
Katherine Turman,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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Her poems of that era — sonnets, epigrams, eminently quotable snippets of rhymed gossip — pulse with the dynamism and attitude of the modern city.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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On the new version of the track, Laferte opens the song in Spanish, before St. Vincent joins in English as the two take turns tackling the song’s lyrics and their own language.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
23 May 2025
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Other fans even modified Taylor Swift lyrics to fit the situation, showing off their creativity.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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For some, expecting no gay slurs in a diss song is like expecting no rhymes.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
23 May 2025
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Read-aloud rhymes, paired with photos of real-life babies, build early language skills, while promoting tummy time.—
Pamela Brill,
Parents,
22 May 2025
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Many online expressed lament over the resort towns’ popularity too.—
Monica Pitrelli,
CNBC,
1 Apr. 2025
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My own experience and reality invalidated and denied, which in her heart today would be a very painful lament.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2025
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His 2022 family epic, Leila’s Brothers — which, like his new film, premiered in competition in Cannes — had hints of both The Godfather and the searing social dramas of Asghar Farhadi, with some of the best acting in any movie that year.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2025
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Perhaps live-action is not the best way to adapt these long, ultimately very expensive, fantasy epics.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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The funeral of Pope Francis began with a short musical chant and psalm spoken in Latin after an open Book of the Gospels had been placed on top of Pope Francis’ closed coffin carried by pallbearers from inside St. Peter’s and placed on a red carpet on the edge of the church steps.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2025
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The faithful will recite several religious verses, including psalm 22, ‘The Lord is my Shepherd,’ during the service.—
Caitlin Danaher,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2025
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The spiritual power ballad also drew 918,000 official U.S. streams in the tracking week.—
Jim Asker,
Billboard,
28 May 2025
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Dropped with enough time to reach the Billboard charts before fans rush to buy and stream the full-length, the ballad sadly didn’t perform very well via any major metric.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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“Ode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ode. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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