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Recent Examples of literary One thing German writer-director Tom Tykwer has never lacked is ambition, evidenced by his willingness to tackle sprawling, thematically unwieldy literary source material like Cloud Atlas and A Hologram for the King. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025 Over long and liquid lunches, Ross rubbed shoulders and wisecracked with some of the brightest lights in New York’s literary chandelier. Christopher B. Daly, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025 Author Salman Rushdie will face in court the man accused of violently stabbing him at a literary event in 2022. Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025 Researchers think the scrolls contain ancient literary and philosophical texts. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for literary 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for literary
Adjective
  • Holding an infant while reviewing drawings is one such learned skill!
    Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The bottom line: Football and books — the recipe for a more learned and literate America.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.
    Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Randy Jones Run/Walk supports folks with disabilities Home of Guiding Hands, a nonprofit that helps community members with intellectual and developmental disabilities, will host its 15th Annual Randy Jones Run, Walk & Roll for Independence starting at 8 a.m. Feb. 8 at De Anza Cove in Mission Bay.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Drug companies at the time approached these treatments with more skepticism, waiting longer to invest and letting universities and academic hospitals do the heavy lifting, said Ameet Sarpatwari, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School who studies the pharmaceutical industry.
    Robin Fields, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Being so much loved is going to help you much more in life than academic success alone.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Bryce Young is bookish, too.
    Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • This perhaps comes through most clearly in the film’s surprisingly considerate treatment of religion, especially in a scholastic environment.
    Ryan Swen, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Here is an important one: Were the poll respondents made aware of the actual number of transgender students participating in scholastic sports relative to the overall number of students participating in those programs, based upon either local, state, or national statistics?
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • For most of her career, Ms. van Kampen was one of the many erudite, imaginative artists of the theater who stay behind the scenes.
    Alex Traub, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • That influence is palpable in Hudson’s playing, which is marked by unexpected, almost counterintuitive little figures; his style was erudite, but teasing.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Literary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/literary. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.

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