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Recent Examples of poetic The script is so poetic and beautifully written. Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025 One particularly poetic example? Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 But Longo’s work is less about depicting a concrete moment and more about documenting a poetic truth. Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025 Bay living was poetic but rugged. Steven Rosenfeld, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for poetic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poetic
Adjective
  • Svelte yet heavy, Clipse’s latest sees all their phonetic and poetical gifts rendered to subtly maximal effect, with their lithe vocals cresting Pharrell’s glossy surfaces like snowfall.
    Peter A. Berry, Variety, 11 July 2025
  • Through the map, like the ship, Pace argues, time, space, and place are linked to cultural, personal, poetical, and political memory.
    Abby Clayton, JSTOR Daily, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • For three-quarters of its pages, the book reads like a paean to dope, a lyrical testament to the transcendent bliss of the first time using, and to the futile effort to recapture it.
    Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Busta also received an assist from Papoose and Joyner Lucas, all of them sharing lyrical wordplay and seamless tradeoffs as Busta swung between his trademark dichotomy of rapping to gruff bellowing.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The American academy has been far more used to a confessionalistic, even solipsistic style in its lyric poetry.
    Elaine L. Wang September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The lyric change brought immediate screams inside Estadio River Plate and across the Swift world.
    Doha Madani, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025

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

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