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Recent Examples of unpoetic
This was an obtuse and unpoetic diktat, a showy way to miss the fact that a song’s history—its use over time, by real people, inspired by the exigencies of ritual and action—can inform its meaning more than its mere lyrics ever could.
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.
—Sanjena Sathian, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.
—Sanjena Sathian, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpoetic
Adjective
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Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.—
Book Marks
August 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Along with monogatari, fictional tales drawn from the oral tradition, the first fully Japanese prose texts were women’s autobiographical writings.—
Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The more prosaic story is classic scientific self-correction.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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If sacred means separate, outside of the prosaic flux of things, then this Japanese city is sacred.—
Ed Simon
August 18,
Literary Hub,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Unpoetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpoetic. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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