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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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Lavery is one of my favorite writers and one of the funniest prose stylists of his generation—I’m very excited for this one.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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As fiction films do something analogous to what is done in prose forms like the novel and the short story, so nonfiction films can have a broad choice of nonfiction literary models.—
Susan Sontag,
Vogue,
26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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If anything, ChatGPT-3 has something of the oracular about it; for as mysterious as the writing process of any author may be in all sorts of intangible and ineffable ways, any person who works in words also understands what’s prosaic and gritty (and thus all the more beautiful) about writing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Throughout, the depth and quality of Sullivan’s attention to prosaic detail—even plain and unappealing objects—never wavers.—
The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
26 Dec. 2025
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“Unpoetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpoetic. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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