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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
  • Beaux Pilgrim runs his business, ia Blueprint, from Vidalia, Louisiana, a bucolic town of 4,000 people.
    Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Listen to this article A ribbon-cutting ceremony held on the sunny afternoon of March 20 celebrated the Friends Terrace, a space overlooking a bucolic landscape of trees and flowers in the Fullerton Arboretum and Botanical Garden that provides a unique new venue for special events.
    Nicole Gregory, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 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
  • This is rock and roll as pastoral.
    Mitch Therieau, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Eiichi Sakauye, who passed away in 2005, became a prominent figure in the agricultural community.
    Devan Patel, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
  • In 2024, the value of agricultural exports was at $191 billion and imports at a record $263 billion, revealing an all-time high import-export gap that continues to frustrate many.
    Phil Kafarakis, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • Studio Collins Weir Studio Collins Weir designed this space to build on the warm materialism of the architecture and play to the agrarian vernacular of the Mill Valley, California, project.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The South, for its part, responded in kind: secession swiftly forged a fractured region into a reactive unity, bound by fear of emancipation and faith in a mythic agrarian freedom.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The title is borrowed from Elizabeth Alexander’s fourth collection persona poems, historical narratives, jazz riffs, sonnets, elegies, and a sequence of ars poetica which examines the Black experience through the lens of the slave rebellion on the Amistad and nineteenth-century American art.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Eephus is an elegy, but with just the barest hint of sentimentality—a shrugging send-off that simultaneously cares deeply about America’s pastime.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Boosting agriculture Angola imports over half of its food and currently only 10% of arable land is cultivated.
    Tom Page, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Brazil has immense amounts of arable and potentially arable land, much of which, in today’s environmentally conscious world, will thankfully come from the conversion of sub-par pastureland rather than the destruction of rainforest.
    Sal Gilbertie, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Tour the historic penthouse that is an ode to Old Hollywood glamour.
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • All of the 470 guestrooms and suites have been redesigned and are an ode to the spirit of Madrid.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But in those years, Shakespeare would produce a bounty of plays, sonnets and poems that have been studied, modernized, adapted, saturized and lionized for decades.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Read: Let our critic guide you through the power and paradox of an old-school sonnet.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025

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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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