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bards

noun

plural of bard

as in poets

a person who writes poetry a bard best known for a series of love poems to his raven-haired beloved

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Recent Examples of bards Before it was written down, bards recited the adventures of Odysseus and the Greeks orally. — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026 Tales from the Trojan War were passed down orally by bards for centuries until someone put pen to paper. — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026 The admiral's swagger, battlefield bravado and desire for revenge will be sung by the bards of Westeros, and serve as a breakthrough showcase for Thorn, a playwright and YouTuber, who came out as a transgender woman in a January 2021 video on her Philosophy Tube channel. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 21 June 2026 The bards were the first adapters. — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026 Sentences that fizzle and scorch will also appeal to fans of Jade Sharma and Mary Robison, other bards of women on the absolute verge. — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026 But this award, which was inaugurated in 2023 with a Jesso win, circles the same handful of writers, and country scribes like Jessie Jo Dillon, pop bards like Amy Allen, and reggaeton men-at-arms like Edgar Barrera are just as up next. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026 There are also 13 DuraShocks traction bards on the outsole as a nod to the 13 stripes of the American Flag. — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

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But the group had learned of the Phantom Orchestra, a group in Tbilisi, the capital of what is now Georgia, composed of musicians, poets and activists who had been barred from leaving the Soviet Union.

— Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
Before scientists formulated their research, poets and naturalists had fathomed features of this intelligence.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2026

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