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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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Courtesy of Visit California The Golden Gate Bridge has been a San Francisco symbol since its completion in 1937, connecting San Francisco’s bustle with the charmingly bucolic villages north of the bay.—
Visit California,
AFAR Media,
12 Mar. 2025
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With the bucolic backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains as their playground, the sisters spent their days disappearing into the forest and meandering along creeks.—
Garret K. Woodward,
Rolling Stone,
12 Mar. 2025
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The English pastoral meets its match, not in the city but in the imagination that decides not to pursue the trees for the forest of the moment.—
Kevin Young,
The New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2024
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Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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As other countries impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agricultural goods, Brazilian soy exports just became a lot more competitive.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
13 Mar. 2025
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Those measures cover not just steel and aluminum products but also textiles, home appliances and agricultural goods.—
TIME,
TIME,
13 Mar. 2025
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Shyne, who also serves as cinematographer, constructs an empathetic portrait of agrarian life while also revealing threats to its survival.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Jan. 2025
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The small yet growing city about 25 miles east of Tampa is a place that relishes small-town values and its agrarian past.—
Dan Sullivan,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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In fact, the opening moments play out like an elegy for the whole nation: a school boarded up, with empty corridors and empty classrooms.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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As photographed by Austin Shelton, the widescreen images — and even the vertical TikTok videos braided alongside — convey a hopeful vision of their future, more fresh start than elegy.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Successive generations of Colonists along the Eastern Seaboard had to compete with each other, and with Indigenous people, for resources, arable land and trade.—
G. Patrick O'Brien,
The Conversation,
3 Mar. 2025
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Ukraine’s geography has given it highly arable land because of the river systems that bring alluvial deposits to its plains.—
Saleem H. Ali,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Alongside the younger performers, Jacobson includes cameos from elder statesmen like the writer Richard Price, whose 2008 novel Lush Life was an ode to the Lower East Side, and Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Dune), who spends the whole movie on a bed watching reruns of Kung Fu.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Mar. 2025
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The collection was a contemporary ode to classic elegance and a tribute to a storied brand.—
Laia Farran Graves,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.—
Adriana Lee,
WWD,
26 Nov. 2024
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And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?—
Constance Grady,
Vox,
20 Nov. 2024
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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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