First recorded in 2005–10; shortened from versatile ( def. )
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Matthieu Latrasse, un pilote de ligne actuellement premier du classement des 277 000 joueurs, demande à voler vers des destinations où se trouvent des oeuvres d’Invader.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023
Juste comme ça, vers 18 heures, parce que c’est assez joli de se donner un rendez-vous ensemble chaque jour pour tromper l’ennui.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2020
The four protagonists in her debut novel, Conversations With Friends, are as hyperconscious of social norms as the vers libre poets were hyperconscious of meter.
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2017
The best poems in the book are actually a pastiche of one of James Laughlin’s vers d’occasion and a little take-off on “In a Station of the Metro,” Ezra Pound’s imagist classic:
From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2015
The masses, however, unable to understand, let alone appreciate the mystic imagery and elusive passion of his vers libre phrasings remained oblivious to him.
From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben
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