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noun

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Recent Examples of georgic
Adjective
And so the community would persist, a tableau of georgic calm sealed inside the bottle of a company town. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for georgic
Adjective
  • The sound of water tumbling over an 18th-century mill wheel only adds to the bucolic allure of a 2,000-plus-acre horse farm in New York‘s scenic Hudson Valley that just hit the market for an eye-popping $90 million.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to its prime, bucolic location in the Green Mountains, Putney is perhaps best known for its schools, including Landmark College and the boarding schools, Putney School and Greenwood School.
    Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Who would not raise a glass to the memory of so vexed a merrymaker, under whose spell the city is transformed into an exotic pastoral?
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The pastoral, yet bittersweet lament has turned into something of an emotionally restorative California wildfire reflection.
    Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The pigs, which can weigh hundreds of pounds, trample fields and eat crops, doing billions of dollars in agricultural damage every year.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Today’s land prices are also an indicator of what happened several years ago, said Bryon Parman, an associate professor and agricultural finance specialist at NDSU.
    April Baumgarten, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Beneath the surface of this agrarian life, traditional gender roles exert a powerful force.
    Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Worries over Trump-era cuts IndyStar traveled south to Daviess County, an agrarian community that voted for Trump by one of the largest margins in the state, for the second leg of our reporting tour last week.
    Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Harmony Holiday’s elegy/essay for D’Angelo is a stunning piece of writing.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Overall, the snippet sounds like an elegy for Bryan’s vision of America.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The grim irony of Sudan’s predicament is that Africa’s third-largest country boasts significant mineral reserves, including huge quantities of gold, as well as vast swathes of arable land.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • According to Keel Labs, its Kelsun fiber is made from seaweed biopolymers and requires no freshwater or arable land while remaining non-toxic and biodegradable.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This mesmerizing presentation of high divers is an ode to the human body in motion.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
  • According to the website, Banks created Smize & Dream as an ode to her mother, Carolyn London.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
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
  • When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?
    Ed Simon September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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