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georgic

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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
  • This example from Studio BV includes an outdoor sitting area—plus a barbecue and plenty of bucolic vistas.
    Helena Madden, Martha Stewart, 21 June 2026
  • Dance Tucked into the bucolic Berkshires, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival is a dance oasis.
    Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • Debate has persisted regarding churches with women serving in assistant pastoral or preaching roles.
    Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • Debate has persisted on where to draw the line regarding churches with women serving in assistant pastoral or preaching roles.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 June 2026
Adjective
  • This is typical across Oregon, where the vast majority of water goes to agricultural lands.
    Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026
  • In California, on-the-ground enforcement for pesticide regulations is conducted by county agricultural commissioners.
    Lizzie Kane June 26, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026
  • The film uses one man’s late life as an elegy for a disappearing Canarian way of being, its rituals, its rootedness, its relationship to the land.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 19 June 2026
Adjective
  • This usually centers on the likes of Jefferson and his local, agrarian ideal; James Madison and his counterbalancing factions; Alexander Hamilton and his distrust of the common people.
    Jesse Wegman, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026
  • The semidome panoramic windows let in views of the South Island’s agrarian landscape and the wide expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
    Steve Madgwick, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • According to its creators, the film serves as an ode to art, connection and the human experience, balancing the comedic sensibilities of silent films with a more introspective meditation on time, creativity and loss.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 19 June 2026
  • This duet with Stevie Wonder – a first for McCartney with another major artist – is much maligned because of its simplified ode to racial harmony.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 18 June 2026
Adjective
  • It is ideally suited for these types of produce, in areas where there are constraints on arable land and water.
    Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • The hum of the highway reached us across an arable field.
    Jessi Jezewska Stevens, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • Performance That Relies On Deep Institutional Reasoning Frontier models are extraordinary at problems that are truly novel, ambiguous and wide—writing sonnets, solving math olympiad problems, debugging Python code.
    Anshul Gupta, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • In his gorgeous and arresting debut, Nick Martino hurtles through a variety of forms—from sonnets to visual poems to works of visual art—to vividly portray and reflect on a teenager’s world during and after the speaker’s parents’ divorce and his father’s incarceration.
    Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026

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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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