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noun

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Recent Examples of romantic
Adjective
In August 2021, Kidman spoke about what Urban thinks of her on-screen romantic scenes. Robin Raven, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025 Behind films that have grossed over $1 billion worldwide, Di Novi Pictures most recently wrapped production on the sequel to their 1998 romantic fantasy Practical Magic, starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, which Warner Bros releases next September. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
That reasoning helped anchor the setting for The Paper inside the office of a newspaper with dwindling resources, a beleaguered staff, and a boss whose belief in the institution borders on the romantic. Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 This book is the perfect read for hopeless romantics and for those who believe that love and healing have the power to transcend lifetimes. Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 14 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for romantic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for romantic
Adjective
  • Anyone planning to bring an exotic animal into Kentucky is required to have transportation permit.
    Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, there are more exotic possibilities that cannot be ruled out, at present, as well.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • For apartment residents or those without garages, the lack of charging options makes EV adoption impractical.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The 2025 Wrangler Rubicon 4xe is absurd, impractical, overpriced, and an odd combination of power – which is exactly why people should love it.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The actress, model, and singer portrayed the altruistic dreamer Lani McKenzie on season 8 of the action series, which centered on the exploits of a group of Los Angeles County lifeguards.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Known for their loud personalities, huskies are no stranger to using their voices, but a video of a senior, deaf husky's silent howl is proving that even without sound, the breed still speaks volumes.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Holland also told police about other strange behavior, including an argument while shopping at Wal-Mart, where Overstreet looked at her angrily and pointed at a missing person's picture of Myers posted inside the store.
    Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The trend for the last twenty years is for a Balkanized internet—not the idealistic worldwide web, but local internet without much access to the outside.
    Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Ramírez planted the flag in the infield grass before Slider grabbed it, engaged with a sea of fans who didn’t want to abandon the utopian setting at the ballpark, and then handed it to David Fry.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, such a transition as implied by the current crisis necessitates and implies a coming organizational shift in society, but that could either result in a hideous fascism or in something genuinely utopian.
    Ed Simon September 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Until Saturday, Scott — accustomed to wearing prison blue — had two shirts and two pairs of pants, but Sanders took him to Ross Dress for Less for some colorful, new clothes.
    Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The lunar event will appear brighter and more colorful than most full moons, offering several nights of striking views just after sunset.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of Herzog’s films capture that sense of a quixotic, even bizarre quest, an antihero searching for some kind of truth that may be obvious only to himself.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • His performance here most recalls his tragicomic portrayal of John Brown, the heroic but unhinged abolitionist whose quixotic raid on Harpers Ferry helped catalyze the Civil War, in Showtime’s 2020 adaptation of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Romantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romantic. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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