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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 compound, which is situated on eight bucolic acres with over 1,000 feet of water frontage, features a 7,600-square-foot main home with five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 15 Sep. 2025
  • From romantic florals to elegant damasks and bucolic toile scenes, old-world wallpaper is making a grand and graceful return.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His voice is the ghost in the machine, a strangely humane presence amid all the urban-industrial pastoral.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Elsewhere, Abercrombie’s pastorals are almost like burlesques of plein air painting.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Monoculture Problem Just as agricultural monocultures make ecosystems vulnerable to disease, cognitive monocultures make human societies vulnerable to manipulation and groupthink.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The land could be returned to agricultural use after the project is completed, Aaron Menenberg, Idaho policy manager at Renewable Northwest, previously told the Idaho Statesman.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This era saw the rise of factories and reduction in agrarian economy.
    Ankit Pathak, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • What to Know About Tuscan Style Rooted in the agrarian villas and farmhouses of the Italian countryside, classic Tuscan design celebrates its heritage, authenticity, and deep connection with the land through the use of natural, aged materials.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This is her elegy, her memorial, her voice, her face.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Not every elegy comes in the form of a dying fall.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 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
  • Guillermo del Toro, whose Pinocchio was conceived as an ode to the human over the machine, was emphatic on the subject.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Arone described another flavor as an ode to a nostalgic treat, and the reference lands.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To the west, the London Eye pirouettes above the skyline—to the east, Shakespeare’s Globe serves legendary sonnets.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • These tablets from the end of the fourth millennium BCE show that writing did not emerge fully formed overnight, and that it was developed not to write sonnets, but receipts.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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