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Recent Examples of poetical For armchair travelers and avid trip planners alike, Wine & Travel Italy evokes the spirit of Bel Paese (Beautiful Country), the popular poetical appellative for Italy. Laura Manske, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 There is a real dangerous poetical syndrome sweeping America that must be cured. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2024 After all these years, your name still lights a flame in the poetical mind — to set those two syllables to rhyme, to music, to anything! Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024 And Davies’ approach has always been more poetical than technical. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for poetical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poetical
Adjective
  • What the poem’s constitutive range of modal verbs exemplify is a mode of poetic questioning.
    Elaine L. Wang September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Ahmed, 42, waxes poetic while behind the wheel, speeding against traffic.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Other stars who will be vying for a golden gramophone alongside Bad Bunny include Colombian pop star Karol G, Argentinian hip-hop duo CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso and Latin icons including Alejandro Sanz, Gloria Estefan and lyrical soprano, Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Her diaries, two volumes of which have been published, reveal a wonderful writer, lyrical and self-lacerating.
    Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 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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“Poetical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetical. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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