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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
  • Here, the poetic and essential quality of her prose is at its purest, and at its most piercing, as Romano captures the essence of her life with her husband of five decades, Innocenzo Monti.
    Brian Robert Moore September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The web of secrets and confessions, schemes and counterplots, short-term pleasures and far-reaching decisions, are couched in dialogue that is pugnacious, vulnerable, comedic, and sometimes richly poetic, and which feels as spontaneous as it is carefully crafted.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 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 lyric change brought immediate screams inside Estadio River Plate and across the Swift world.
    Doha Madani, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025

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“Poetical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetical. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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