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Recent Examples of georgic
Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
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
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According to public records, O’Neal had owned the bucolic sprawl since 1995.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
25 Feb. 2025
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Initially, the new home, in a bucolic suburb, felt like a dream.—
David Peisner,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The English pastoral meets its match, not in the city but in the imagination that decides not to pursue the trees for the forest of the moment.—
Kevin Young,
The New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2024
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Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Travelers are required to declare all agricultural products to CBP officers and agriculture specialists or face fines of up to $10,000.—
Jennifer Hauser,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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House Bill 297 would create a year-round agricultural guest worker program — for which there is no current federal equivalent.—
Carolyn Komatsoulis,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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At the time, the island was still an agrarian place, where farmers tended rice paddies and raised water buffalos, but the possibility of war was manifest in the landscape.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2025
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The Federalists dreamed of a commercial colossus rivaling the empires of Europe, whereas the Republicans imagined a simple, agrarian republic of yeoman farmers defended by citizen militias, with no need for a federal military academy.—
Ryan Shaw / Made by History,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
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In fact, the opening moments play out like an elegy for the whole nation: a school boarded up, with empty corridors and empty classrooms.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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As photographed by Austin Shelton, the widescreen images — and even the vertical TikTok videos braided alongside — convey a hopeful vision of their future, more fresh start than elegy.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Other northerly territories will likely undergo similar changes to those in Canada and Russia: Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. state of Alaska will all have a growing base of arable land in the coming decades.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Mar. 2025
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Hybridity of Borders The late Sen. John McCain noted in 2014, Ukraine was the jewel of the Soviet crown because of its rich arable land, vast mineral wealth and massive manufacturing infrastructure.—
Saleem H. Ali,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Our ode to those cafeteria rolls have a gorgeous golden brown, buttery exterior and a tender, fluffy center.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2025
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Without labeling itself as such, F&B Downtown is an ode to culinary fusion.—
Daphne Ewing-Chow,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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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
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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 9 Mar. 2025.
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