Freytag
Americannoun
noun
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In ballet, Freytag said, the body is required to be in peak athletic condition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2021
Several at the rally doubted those conclusions - Freytag called it all “scare tactics.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 25, 2020
It's also the form of three-act structure in drama, initially formalized by Gustav Freytag in the 1800s.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 11, 2020
“Competition breeds innovation,” says Josh Swartz, the COO of Popdog and one of the “great minds” to whom Freytag alluded.
From The Verge ● Jan. 6, 2020
Two days later again, on August 24, Freytag had occupied Wormhoudt and Esquelbecque, capturing guns by the dozen, doing pretty well what he would with the French outposts, and quite surrounding the town of Bergues.
From The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc
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