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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
  • The shift from an office with rising music to a bucolic scene with only ambient noise (and a decidedly unbucolic conversation) is subtly unsettling.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The film begins in bucolic enough fashion, with a close-up of a baby crib mobile that might suggest peaceful nights and mornings in which a child is lulled into serenity.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • For those who make the trek, the week will be filled with events ranging from the pastoral to the glamourous to the overtly highbrow.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 25 July 2024
Adjective
  • From energy innovation to agricultural technology and exports, the U.S. economy stands to gain from the power that the G-20 wields to focus priorities and encourage investment on a global scale.
    Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The National Park Service has said that if agricultural operators lose their leases there, all people living on those farms and ranches would have to leave.
    Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Such stories had powerful meanings for agrarian societies with ghosts representing the desires and experiences of peasant society.
    Tithi Bhattacharya / Made by History, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Their routines have long endured on the fringes of their worlds, with Nina driving back and forth from her plain, modern life and the wilds of the mountain villages and Walter’s sometimes agrarian, sometimes intellectual upbringing.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Working with longtime collaborators John Collins and Nicolas Bragg, the funk-rock elegies and New Romantic jaunts turn brittle and deliberate.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • The country itself is the fourth wealthiest in the EU, with a GDP per capita of $52,000 (€48,000) and the CIA World Factbook lists its natural resources as petroleum, natural gas, fish, arable land, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Low-lying cities such as Samarkand and Tashkent, which have the arable land and irrigation necessary to support their bustling populations, are seen as having been the real destinations for trade.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The book, per its publisher, is an ode to the special bond between grandparents and grandchildren.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
  • In his new book of poems, Quesada seamlessly blends intimate confessions with odes to surreal paintings.
    James Factora, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.
    Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
  • And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?
    Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024

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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

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