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Among my friends, at least my guy friends, a return to traditional prosody. Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, "The Rose," 6 July 2020

But the number that are fit for verse, in terms of both meaning and prosody, is much smaller. The Economist, "Johnson Is music a language, as Stevie Wonder sang?," 30 May 2020

Verbal markers such as intonation, prosody, and emphasis are what allow Irony Man to imbue sarcasm into conversation. Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, "This Eye-Rolling Robot Understands Irony and Will Sass You Hard," 13 June 2019

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