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Recent Examples of georgic
Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
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
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Monteverdi is a place that invites you to embrace the slow rhythms of Tuscany, surrounded by nature in the UNESCO protected setting of the bucolic Val d’Orcia.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 Mar. 2026
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Which is the next big step in putting this bucolic area on the map – as one of the largest data center campuses in the world.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
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The pastoral was required reading in military academies.—
Gerard F. Powers,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2026
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But in their own ways, these two very different actors — she, the eccentric spirit of New Hollywood comedy; he, the golden-boy stoic of the American pastoral — were bound by something even more powerful than onscreen chemistry: generational gravity.—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
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Burlap & Barrel’s best-selling spices are grown only by smallholder farmers in other countries, under specific climate conditions unique to that place and using traditional agricultural methods not widely employed stateside.—
Ori Zohar,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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From large commercial operations to small-scale organic plots, farmers across Illinois and the country are trying to weather the sharp spike in agricultural costs driven by a conflict thousands of miles from their fields.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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In Berceuse Parish, there are so many elegies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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The show, a sort of elegy for Gen X, opens with a flash-forward to July 16, 1999, the final hours of Carolyn and John.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Among agrarian humans, endosperm left its mark on our genomes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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By probing deeper into outer-borough New York and its agrarian history, White complicates our traditional understanding of slavery as rural and southern, showing how memories of that peculiar institution shape contemporary urban life as well.—
Omari Weekes,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The secret ingredient in their chili is Greek spices and is an ode to the immigrants’ homeland.—
Catherine Garcia,
TheWeek,
27 Mar. 2026
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What inspired you to write an ode to your home state of New Jersey as a kiss-off?—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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That is another area in which dreams smack into the reality of Cuban state, which owns 80% of all arable land.—
Sarah Moreno
Updated March 24,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
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Declining rainfall, rising temperatures, and storms that kick up dense dust clouds have rendered vast swaths of once-arable land unusable.—
Michael Snyder,
Saveur,
11 Mar. 2026
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The tracklist includes songs set in every season and a sonnet-like ode to an ice-cold Staropramen.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
21 Mar. 2026
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If Wyatt and Surrey could pen brilliant sonnets under Tudor tyranny, then certainly great art can be produced under capitalism despite its particular degradations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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