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Recent Examples of unpoetic
This was an obtuse and unpoetic diktat, a showy way to miss the fact that a song’s history—its use over time, by real people, inspired by the exigencies of ritual and action—can inform its meaning more than its mere lyrics ever could.
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.
—Sanjena Sathian, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.
—Sanjena Sathian, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpoetic
Adjective
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Nonetheless, there is no denying its piracy of the prose tale.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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One of the headiest things about Adult Braces is how West’s prose style was pickled in the mid-2010s, so her use of caps lock and exclamation marks acted on me as a powerful Proustian madeleine.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
22 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Other stories are a little more prosaic, and even funny, as in the case of footballer Miodrag Belodedici, who had been part of Romania’s Steaua Bucharest team that beat Barcelona in the 1986 European Cup final.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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The rest concerns prosaic matters of marital and family relations, commercial transactions, and ritual.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Unpoetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpoetic. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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