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Recent Examples of trimeterEspecially after a late first trimeter loss, but also possibly beneficial after early loss.—Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 29 July 2024
The dialogue is both realist, full of the ejaculations and repetitions that characterize human speech, and poetic, with only the occasional anapest interrupting the poem’s iambic pentameter.
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Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Putting Vice and the Bard in the same sentence sounds sacrilegious, but the movie paints Lynne Cheney as a Lady MacBeth type and requires Adams to recite iambic pentameter about Dick’s capacity to usurp some of George W. Bush’s authority.
While moderate to severe ailments require a certain amount of rest and recovery, mild ones might improve with movement.
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Andrew Torgan,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2025
The group had paused attacks in January after Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement reached a ceasefire in Gaza but has resumed strikes in the wake of Israel scrapping the truce.
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