as in learned
suggestive of the vocabulary used in books
the novel's dialogue is a little too literary in flavor to be entirely convincing
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Recent Examples of literary
Revenue from issuing gambling licenses supports early childhood literary programs at public elementary schools.
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Emma Whitford, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Off the success of their viral short film The Crossing Over Express, writing duo Luke Barnett and Tanner Thomason have signed with Kaplan-Stahler for literary representation.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
Follow the Outside Podcast Outside’s longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life in audio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners.
—Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
Book to Screen Surge While the route from book to screen is a well-trodden one, in recent years, the demand for literary IP has reached a fever pitch.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Oct. 2024
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Emma Whitford, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Off the success of their viral short film The Crossing Over Express, writing duo Luke Barnett and Tanner Thomason have signed with Kaplan-Stahler for literary representation.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
Follow the Outside Podcast Outside’s longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life in audio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners.
—Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
Book to Screen Surge While the route from book to screen is a well-trodden one, in recent years, the demand for literary IP has reached a fever pitch.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for literary
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Some of the industry’s challenges come down to the need to change learned behaviors, Brugal said, rather than to physical or technical roadblocks.Sam Meredith, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024
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Bring back the learned society of common people reading and discussing challenging topics.Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2024
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The aim, according to its course description, is to use her work as a lens through which to examine Black intellectual thought and activism.Angela Yang, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Based out of West Valley College in Saratoga, the College of Adaptive Arts is a nonprofit that provides college programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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And that’s not an accident, according to academic researchers, doctors, politicians, community leaders, and dozens of other people KFF Health News interviewed.Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Miller said there not only needs to be a focus on core academic programs but the integration of other programs like STEM, art and vocational training, commonly known as Career Technical Education.Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
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The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.Scott Brown, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
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Bryce Young is bookish, too.Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2022
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Starting this scholastic year, the program is donating 175,000 euros to institutions located in the U.S. and U.K. Plans are afoot to expand globally in the future.Jennifer Weil, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
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Public health, the work of public health cannot be principally scholastic.Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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Photo : Chris Tedesco Best Entry-Level: Acura Integra Type S If Honda’s Civic Type R is a track-shredding front-wheel drive monster, the Acura Integra Type S is its more sophisticated, comfortable, and generally erudite cousin.Kyle Hyatt, Robb Report, 19 Sep. 2024
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Probably not the kind of erudite matter that the parties wish to get mired in.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Literary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/literary. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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