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limericks

noun

plural of limerick

as in poems

a humorous rhyming composition of five lines She recited an old limerick which elicited guffaws from the crowd

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Recent Examples of limericks The study picked 10 commercial large language models by top tech companies — including Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI — and asked the AI systems to make critical pamphlets, write limericks, give reasons if someone should join protests, and more. — Didi Tang, Fortune, 16 July 2026

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Noun

Many poems are short and easy reads, and some of the best examples of the genre have been written about the autumn season.

— Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
My physical study, on the floor, poking at what was there in the open field of the air, led to newfound levels of learning to process, in poems on the page, where my initial feelings of hunger came from.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of poems

Noun

People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

Definition of sonnets

Noun

During a recent morning visit, large groups of Jewish worshippers circumambulated the holy site under close police guard, singing psalms at full volume and openly praying.

— Ilan Ben Zion, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2026
Psalm 23 is numbered Psalm 22 in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate because of differences in how the psalms are divided and numbered.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of psalms

Noun

Beathard drove the melody in the verses and chorus, threading a stream of steady rhythms that keep the piece rolling forward.

— Tom Roland, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2026
The poem continues with more verses about Burns’s steadfast love, but beyond that, nothing really happens.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of verses

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