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
Then, the imitators and plagiarists descended with both literary and theatrical adaptations.
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Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 14 Dec. 2024
And while listeners may leave the podcast with new literary insights, Breyer and Streich insist their primary goal is to make people laugh—sometimes at them rather than with them.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
Eve Babitz’s diary-like letters provide a window into her fellow literary titan, Joan Didion.
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—The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Like many literary protagonists before her, Emily Ruff is an orphan who is recruited by representatives of a mysterious, exclusive boarding school.
—Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024
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Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 14 Dec. 2024
And while listeners may leave the podcast with new literary insights, Breyer and Streich insist their primary goal is to make people laugh—sometimes at them rather than with them.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
Eve Babitz’s diary-like letters provide a window into her fellow literary titan, Joan Didion.
5.
—The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Like many literary protagonists before her, Emily Ruff is an orphan who is recruited by representatives of a mysterious, exclusive boarding school.
—Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for literary
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Although resource guarding is an innate behavior for some dogs, others might develop it as a learned behavior.Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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Floating above it all was an air of learned majesty, a cool radiance that compelled admiration but, in the centuries since, has not always spurred delight.Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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These courses not only demonstrate intellectual curiosity but also highlight a student’s ability to handle the demands of a college curriculum.Dr. Aviva Legatt, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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By giving Jim imagined dialogues with Enlightenment philosophers like Voltaire and Locke, Everett further challenges the dehumanizing perceptions of enslaved individuals and underscores Jim’s intellectual depth.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024
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Move spring football to June: College football’s current transfer portal windows were installed to sync up with the academic calendar (which will not change) and spring football.Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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The school offers an innovative curriculum that embeds the visual and performing arts into strategies to help students retain academic content — especially those who are struggling with STEM subjects.Christopher C. Morphew, Baltimore Sun, 29 Dec. 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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The final version, thanks to its production and Antonoff plumbing the lower depths of his voice, recalls the erudite, hooky gloom of the Magnetic Fields refracted through string lights on their final bit of wattage. 35.Maura Johnston, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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Like a slightly more erudite and discriminating, but also kinky, Judy Blume!Alysia Reiner, Flow Space, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Literary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/literary. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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