arcadia

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Recent Examples of arcadia The region’s dairy farms offer loamy soil, untilled and laden with manure: an annelid’s arcadia. Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025 Splendor is a bohemian arcadia nestled among desert, removed from the mainstream in an act of defiance that requires little explanation. Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 July 2024 What started as a public safety initiative has become a radical oddity, a small arcadia governed by militant environmentalism in the heart of avocado country. Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023 Unlike most dreams, Goodhue’s vision of a Spanish arcadia — in keeping with romantic visions of California as depicted in early-20th century fiction, tourism and Sunkist orange crate labels — did not fade away. Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023 My approach to journalism, to life, in this dirtbag arcadia, is that of an amateur anthropologist, and not the stuffy old kind who held themselves at a reserve, keeping clean while taking notes. Matt Thompson, SPIN, 24 Jan. 2023 In addition to creating a lively avian arcadia, the exhibition seeks to bring awareness to the various threats birds face and to comment on the fragility of the natural world. Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 17 June 2022 When the bulldozer returned a few days later, Ms. Park confronted it again, but this time she was joined by dozens of her neighbors in the south Indian arcadia of Auroville. New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022 The spareness feels like richness, an arcadia of silence and stillness that trains our attention on the actors’ every word and gesture. Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arcadia
Noun
  • Where the youthful Marx sketched utopias, the mature Marx turned to economics and praxis.
    Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For this utopia to be realized, the web would need an overhaul.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Concocting a male fantasyland More so than most restaurants, managers at breastaurants like Hooters seek to strictly regulate how their employees look and act.
    Dawn Szymanski, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2025
  • In other words, the tension between dark metaphor and the sickly sweet fantasyland of Oz has always been there.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Betts is part of the Sox Sensation club with Fred Lynn and Nomar Garciaparra, all wildly popular and productive players who turned out to be supernovas streaking across the Boston baseball empyrean instead of franchise polestars.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
  • Magical empyrean is mundane Earth.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
Noun
  • The proposals — presented by Preston North End chief executive Peter Ridsdale to a meeting of Championship chief executives last week — received widespread backing, as clubs sensed the door to the Premier League’s promised land creaking open a little wider.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Who’s who in Horizon Over three hours, the movie follows several different characters en route to a settlement called Horizon, lured by a flier that promised land for anyone brave enough to make the journey.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 28 June 2024
Noun
  • Ski Glacier 3000 From Interlaken, the GoldenPass Line takes you to Montreux, a beautiful lakeside town in Vaud, which is a skier’s paradise.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The artist Ernest Crichlow summons the memory of the sculptor Augusta Savage, whose studio, in a Harlem basement—amid furnaces and stacks of coal—was a paradise of enlightenment and a hive of creative effort.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the film, after switching bodies for a day, Tess and Anna reach a nirvana of empathy and understanding.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
  • This can be done through a more seamless, predictive human-machine interface while fully engaging the five senses that will foster a nirvana of personal immersion.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Cockaigne Resort in upstate New York closed in February, after getting just 35 to 37 inches of snow this past winter, according to its website.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 9 May 2023

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“Arcadia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arcadia. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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