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noun

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Recent Examples of romantic
Adjective
This new track is a great way to remember the artist’s romantic side outside of the corridos that brought him fame a decade ago. Luisa Calle, Billboard, 27 June 2025 Eldest daughter Nancy wrote incisive comic and romantic novels about her social set—as well as a sendup of fascism, Wigs on the Green. Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
Noun
It's joined by The Life List, a new romantic anchored by Descendants star Sofia Carson, and The Outrun, the Saoirse Ronan festival favorite that's making its streaming premiere on the platform. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2025 While Lucie is warm, vivacious, and a ray of light that shines off the page, Aiden is a grumpy, reluctant romantic who hides behind sarcastic quips. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for romantic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for romantic
Adjective
  • It’s become soldered to my identity, serving as both the ultimate in-group badge and a versatile stylistic accessory: eye-catching, a bit exotic, an opportunity to add color and flair.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
  • Set theorists have continued to define cardinals that are far more exotic and difficult to describe than Cantor’s.
    Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • This sheer volume makes manual auditing impractical and reinforces the need for intelligent tools that can scale.
    Prashant Kondle, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • By contrast, the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands have been allocated to Wi-Fi for a long time, are heavily used, and modifying existing devices to stop using parts of the bands would be impractical.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • At a Los Angeles house party, an aspiring musician pursues her crush through a crowd of hopeful dreamers chasing empty promises.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
  • For all the dreamers out there, Sterling K. Brown’s got the summertime TV escape for you.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • The night before the baby junco landed in the research team’s net, a strange, shifting light filtered through the forest, not far from where the Long Trail, Vermont’s end-to-end hiking route, traverses the Mount Mansfield ridgeline.
    Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
  • This film is set entirely inside a taxi cab that Panahi is driving around Tehran, as different people drift in and out of his car with their own strange and very personal dramas.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • An idealistic commitment for the poet named after a grenade, one that wouldn’t last.
    Ed Simon June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • The Coproduction Office title follows an idealistic young Soviet prosecutor who comes across a letter written by a prisoner.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Advertisement While the setting of Brokeback Mountain, where the pair first works together herding sheep, provides secluded idyll along the (theoretically) utopian lines of Fire Island, Jack and Ennis are largely divorced from gay culture.
    Rich Juzwiak, Time, 24 June 2025
  • Here was a community built on collectivist and utopian principles that had decided 88 years after its founding to disband.
    JOSEPH TORIGIAN, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Other varieties provide additional design elements such as interesting bark, colorful fruits, and fabulous fall foliage to enhance the garden all year long.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 June 2025
  • The film is set in the fictional Mongibello, which Highsmith based on the resort towns along the Amalfi Coast, and unlike nearly all of the previous decade’s noir films, Purple Noon presents its seaside setting in colorful daytime to dazzling visual effect.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Should the Trump administration actually go through with a quixotic invasion effort, the cost in blood and treasure would doubtless drive a permanent wedge within the MAGA movement.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • What sets Netflix Spain apart from most of the U.S. streamer’s international operations is its ambition, based not on quixotic dreams of grandeur but on the record-breaking first decade of generating key titles which perform well on home ground but break out spectacularly abroad.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 16 June 2025

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

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