as in learned
suggestive of the vocabulary used in books
the novel's dialogue is a little too literary in flavor to be entirely convincing
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Recent Examples of literary
In the literary world, this has exacerbated a cycle in which Anglophone publishing is more widespread, and commands significantly more money, than publishing in other languages.
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Carey Baraka, The Dial, 26 June 2025
Prolific director-writer Paris Barclay has signed with Innovative Artists Entertainment for literary representation.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Verve, the literary and talent agency, is the latest Hollywood company to undergo belt-tightening as the industry weathers what’s shaping up to be a year of economizing.
—Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
Tomorrow Bookstore hosts a variety of literary, art and community events, including four book clubs, a weekly local author pop-up and more.
—American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 14 June 2025
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Carey Baraka, The Dial, 26 June 2025
Prolific director-writer Paris Barclay has signed with Innovative Artists Entertainment for literary representation.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Verve, the literary and talent agency, is the latest Hollywood company to undergo belt-tightening as the industry weathers what’s shaping up to be a year of economizing.
—Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
Tomorrow Bookstore hosts a variety of literary, art and community events, including four book clubs, a weekly local author pop-up and more.
—American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for literary
Adjective
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This kind of trading is seen as a form of learned behavior, where dogs associate a specific action with a reward.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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Hoping to learn more about the learned behavior, researchers set up trail cameras to capture video of the cockatoos drinking, according to the study.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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On the pages of National Review and, after 1966, on Firing Line, Buckley pioneered the do-your-own-research rhetorical style: whataboutism and verbal misdirections that often slipped into intellectual nihilism.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Her wide-ranging symphony of essays on Black womanhood is a treat—incisive, intellectual, intimate, funny, and formally inventive.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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But they were clearly impressed by his scholarship and writing skills, which are the principal criteria for grading academic papers.—
Bob Shaw,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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The tests are effectively an academic exercise, where the Fed simulates a scenario in the global economy and measures what that scenario would do to bank balance sheets.—
Alicia Adamczyk,
Fortune,
28 June 2025
Adjective
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Solar Power’s acoustic shampoo-commercial pop signified a degree of freedom from the usual rueful, bookish synth-pop grind.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2025
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The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.—
Scott Brown,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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Quinta Brunson’s scholastic sitcom has been renewed for Season 5 at ABC.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2025
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Thurmond and Newsom praised Clinton Elementary School and Compton Unified School District officials for their students’ scholastic achievements.—
Dave Mason,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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The Barbizon quickly became a magnet for the ambitious, glamorous, and erudite—a young Joan Didion once called it home, as did Cybill Shepherd—who came to the Big Apple to pursue their dreams.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
19 June 2025
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Her transcripts of their conversations can read like early drafts of movie dialogue between two erudite thinkers, untangling the convoluted knots of difficult family histories.—
Evelyn McDonnell
June 5,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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“Literary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/literary. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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