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also idyl
as in lark
a time or instance of carefree fun
her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be
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Recent Examples of idyll
But for now, their great Forest Hills idyll has to come to an end.
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Kayla Levy, Curbed, 4 Aug. 2025
The song begins quite innocently as a pastoral idyll.
—Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 27 July 2025
Iris and Isaac’s idyll is interrupted by the enemy of all great budding romances: the truth.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 July 2025
The post, which has more 24 million views to date, is a mood board of the French country idyll: days spent swishing around a fairy-tale medieval château in floaty dresses with a never-ending glass of rosé.
—Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2025
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Kayla Levy, Curbed, 4 Aug. 2025
The song begins quite innocently as a pastoral idyll.
—Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 27 July 2025
Iris and Isaac’s idyll is interrupted by the enemy of all great budding romances: the truth.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 July 2025
The post, which has more 24 million views to date, is a mood board of the French country idyll: days spent swishing around a fairy-tale medieval château in floaty dresses with a never-ending glass of rosé.
—Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for idyll
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But no matter who did what, Solo is a pretty entertaining, sometimes inspired lark that imagines how Han Solo (a really quite fine Alden Ehrenreich) met Chewbacca and Lando.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
8 Aug. 2025
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Back in Cousins, Taylor is explaining how Belly and Conrad’s relationship is deeper than just a high school fling.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Following Carrie's breakup with Aiden Shaw (John Corbett), the two had a brief fling before Duncan returned to London.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Bulls jumped into my top 25 after a season-opening romp against Boise State in Week 1, but most of the rest of the country was cautious.—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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In this laugh-a-minute romp, Keke Palmer and SZA star as two down-on-their-luck besties and roommates who discover (much too late) that one of their boyfriends squandered their rent money.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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Part of his enjoyment came from being surrounded by talented actors like Carell, Fey, Domingo, Calvani and Kenney-Silver.—
Sean Mandell,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Although that trip was born from an educational perspective, there was a high level of luxury and enjoyment.—
Ann Abel,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Skeptics wonder if the true intention is to undermine efforts to move away from Confederate associations, an issue that has long split people who favor preserving an aspect of southern heritage and those who want slavery-supporting revels stripped of valor.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
28 July 2025
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So the couple also decided to give Huckleberry an important role in their gender revel.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 June 2025
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His shakshuka takes the tomato-and-pepper mold and spins it into a gambol through fields of celery and coriander seeds, ground chipotles and sweet paprika.—
Scott Hocker,
theweek,
26 Nov. 2024
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In the winning first moments of the show, Mills gambols on as the Narrator, wielding a paint palette and, instead of a brush, a tuft of rainbow-colored gauze.—
Celia Wren,
Washington Post,
12 Dec. 2023
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News of the talks broke last month as Paramount embarked on a dealmaking spree after closing its $8 billion merger with Skydance.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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The school attack, which terrified students and parents, capped a violent spree that left at least three people dead and more than a dozen others wounded across the city.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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With an almost modern-day Charlie Chaplin-esque physicality, Moss dances, contorts, and frolics amongst the shoes, their boxes, and fixtures in the store for a mesmerizing, can't-look-away effect.—
Roxanne Robinson,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Right frolics—forward, backward, sideways, in a spiral or a zigzag, going nowhere.—
Weike Wang,
New Yorker,
31 July 2025
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“Idyll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idyll. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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