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A similar bill prosed in the Senate would change visitation restrictions specifically for nursing homes, although the measure has not yet been placed on the Legislature’s agenda.

From Washington Times • Feb. 3, 2021

"I found a little grey hair this morning," Miss Searle incoherently prosed.

From A Passionate Pilgrim by James, Henry

How he had argued and prosed for weeks as to whether they could afford these few days! although it was vacation, and Lufflin had sent free passes for the road.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

But I think I have prosed enough for one sitting, and it is growing late—one o’clock, as I am a living sinner!—and you must be growing tired.

From The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa by Ball, Alec

No one talked but Ruskin, and he prosed, and his prose of speech was not his prose of pen.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius