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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And would it not be poetic justice if he who had devised it, eventually died by it?
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If that were so, subsequent events had some of the characteristics of poetic justice .
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In the real world, poetic justice is not so easily achieved.
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Just when you least expect it, she thought, poetic justice is waiting right around the corner.
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Once again the principle of { poetic justice } is demonstrated.
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Yet we have already noted how, in terms of poetic justice for instance, fabliau morality is often conventional in precisely these terms.