eclogues

plural of eclogue

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Noun
  • Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The captive—and Cervantes—found something moving in those sonnets, something that gave them the will to hope.
    Ed Simon September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And around the same time, the pumpkin became a symbol of old-fashioned ways of living — a touchstone in poems and genre paintings as urbanization took hold in the United States.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
  • His name graces snippets of poems and songs graffitied in alleyways.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The 70-year-old star has always swung for the fences — often literally, in pastoral baseball idylls like Bull Durham and Field of Dreams — with bold, risky choices.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The day’s product announcements were odes to simplicity and ease of use.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Revered by all three Abrahamic religions, the psalms were often recited, read, and sung in routine worship.
    Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Kretzmer-Seed felt strongly about the inclusion of psalms from the Hallel service as well as a Spanish-Portuguese prayer for those in captivity, which was originally written for victims of the Spanish Inquisition.
    Marla Brown Fogelman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
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“Eclogues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eclogues. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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