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noun

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Recent Examples of georgic
Adjective
And so the community would persist, a tableau of georgic calm sealed inside the bottle of a company town. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for georgic
Adjective
  • In an effort to pay respect to its bucolic surroundings, the building operates on renewable energy with a geothermal system and over 4,100 solar panels.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Five years on, Ellie has settled in a seemingly bucolic commune in Jackson, Wyoming, although a world-shattering lie about her past is about to catch up with her.
    Zing Tsjeng, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • His voice is the ghost in the machine, a strangely humane presence amid all the urban-industrial pastoral.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • This is rock and roll as pastoral.
    Mitch Therieau, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The center, which is the home of the National Western Sock Show, has been under redevelopment since 2019 as the city and several partners expand the facility into a year-round exhibition, agricultural education and entertainment campus.
    Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2025
  • In some ways, this landscaping idea embodies a farm or agricultural setting where steel barns and tractors are common.
    Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • What is the economy based on? Under Snow White’s parents’ rule, everything seemed like an agrarian paradise, a loosely medieval kingdom where everyone is always eating fruit and/or pies and/or fruit pies.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The descendants of those celebrations, listed below in chronological order for the year, honor agrarian histories and promote unique regional foods, with pop concerts, giant anthropomorphic vegetables, and eating contests.
    Naomi Tomky, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The title is borrowed from Elizabeth Alexander’s fourth collection persona poems, historical narratives, jazz riffs, sonnets, elegies, and a sequence of ars poetica which examines the Black experience through the lens of the slave rebellion on the Amistad and nineteenth-century American art.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Eephus is an elegy, but with just the barest hint of sentimentality—a shrugging send-off that simultaneously cares deeply about America’s pastime.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Boosting agriculture Angola imports over half of its food and currently only 10% of arable land is cultivated.
    Tom Page, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Brazil has immense amounts of arable and potentially arable land, much of which, in today’s environmentally conscious world, will thankfully come from the conversion of sub-par pastureland rather than the destruction of rainforest.
    Sal Gilbertie, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Tour the historic penthouse that is an ode to Old Hollywood glamour.
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • All of the 470 guestrooms and suites have been redesigned and are an ode to the spirit of Madrid.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But in those years, Shakespeare would produce a bounty of plays, sonnets and poems that have been studied, modernized, adapted, saturized and lionized for decades.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Read: Let our critic guide you through the power and paradox of an old-school sonnet.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025

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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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