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
What transpires is likely a heart-wrenching, multi-branching story of precarious life in the capitalist ruins of outer space, told with the kind of literary flair that Damian Martin has made their calling card in recent years.
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Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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, 8 Jan. 2025
But it was not published in a literary magazine until 1988, after some measure of democratization had been achieved.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
In this interview, the New York resident discusses his approach to the creative process, the challenges of balancing multiple roles in the literary world, and the importance of preserving voices from the past.
—Court Stroud, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Eve Babitz’s diary-like letters provide a window into her fellow literary titan, Joan Didion.
6.
—The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
But it was not published in a literary magazine until 1988, after some measure of democratization had been achieved.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
In this interview, the New York resident discusses his approach to the creative process, the challenges of balancing multiple roles in the literary world, and the importance of preserving voices from the past.
—Court Stroud, Forbes, 20 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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Consider it everyday activism anchored in acknowledgement, self-preservation and edifying intellectual steers.Katie Baron, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Increasingly, the left is losing the intellectual battle as well.Dwight Garner, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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Jie Shan and Kin Fai Mak, an academic power couple who run a lab at Cornell University, had been searching for superconductivity in TMDs since Jarillo-Herrero’s blockbuster twisted-graphene discovery in 2018.Charlie Wood, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2025
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In the contemporary world, the Divine Nine boasts diverse growth and development programs, serving their respective communities through camaraderie, academic excellence, and educational, cultural, and economic activities.Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
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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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Sanders won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which is given to the nation’s top quarterback who best exemplifies character, scholastic and athletic achievement.Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
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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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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 17 Jan. 2025.
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