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Recent Examples of romantic
Adjective
Read the full Libra Daily Horoscope Scorpio (October 23 - November 21) Embrace your romantic spirit. Usa Today, USA Today, 21 May 2025 The script musters scant interest in Niki’s career ambitions and romantic complications, and her halting conversations with her mother keep chasing a climactic point of mutual understanding that never arrives — a poignant impasse, perhaps, but a difficult one to structure a film around. Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 May 2025
Noun
Cancer: Henry Roth from 50 First Dates As a hopeless romantic with a nurturing heart, Henry Roth embodies the personality traits of a Cancer. Athena Sobhan, People.com, 11 Feb. 2025 This attempt to coax a conventional romantic through line out of the madness doesn’t really work, partly because Reitman and co-writer Gil Kenan have otherwise done a fine job of making clear how unconventional this whole situation was. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for romantic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for romantic
Adjective
  • Invasive Burmese pythons ended up in Florida wilderness via the exotic pet trade of the 1970s and ’80s.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 19 May 2025
  • These animals are often exploited through the exotic pet trade, kept in unsafe, inhumane conditions that threaten both their welfare and public safety.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • Real estate investments, including rental properties, (DSTs) with cash if a 1031 exchange is impractical, or real estate investment trusts (REITs), can produce regular income through rental payments.
    Fred Hubler, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • This highly contentious deal was criticized for being inhumane and impractical at the time.
    Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For dreamers who still cling to hope in the City of Angels, there needs to be.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Wembley notebook: Man City show nous to set up FA Cup final with Palace dreamers Manchester City were in the semi-finals of the FA Cup for the seventh season running yesterday.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Because of this strange clustering, the Atlantic Shark Institute has posted signs around Narragansett alerting beachgoers to be on the lookout.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • The long strange trip is proving to be even longer than anyone thought.
    Marco della Cava, USA Today, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • All this may sound idealistic, but so far it’s been great.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 14 May 2025
  • Lula insists on pacifism in an idealistic way that is unusual among world leaders.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Hanson sees the rise of dance pop in the US as reflective of utopian desires in the face of economic recession.
    Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 11 May 2025
  • The Paris Climate Accord is a kind of utopian desire.
    A.D. Amorosi, Variety, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • Bosa, Sardinia, Italy Renowned for its colorful houses and the medieval Malaspina Castle, Bosa is situated about two-thirds of the way up the west coast of Sardinia, on a small hill about 3km inland on the north bank of the Temo River.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • In the center of the colorful drink is a butterfly pea blossom ice sphere topped with gold luster dust.
    Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • But the differing Indian and Pakistani reactions to the cease-fire announcement suggest this will be a quixotic task.
    Lisa Curtis, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2025
  • And there’s not much to suggest the strategy goes much further than that, despite the administration’s quixotic and largely rhetorical fantasy of a bringing manufacturing back to the United States.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Romantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romantic. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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