as in artistic
of or relating to the fine arts with its many museums, theaters, and opera and ballet companies, the city is a cultural paradise

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Recent Examples of cultural On the other hand, both then and now, ubiquitous access to gruesome and horrifying imagery can have a corrosive social and cultural effect. Time, 20 Sep. 2025 The experience of living as an outsider in America informed the film’s examination of cultural displacement and linguistic barriers. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025 The cultural landscape of the 1990s had few prominent LGBTQ+ figures, and the sitcom star was keeping a part of herself hidden from public view. Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025 The kind of voices that built ABC's reputation for cultural commentary. Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cultural
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  • Seth Rogen plays a Hollywood studio head torn between making artistic films and movies that will be a surefire commercial success, like a Kool-Aid movie.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Patricia Astorga, the artistic director and founder of DanzArts, said that people who were not Mexican could come to the celebration and see the culture and the dance styles of different regions of Mexico.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025

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“Cultural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultural. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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