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Recent Examples on the Web More ominously for his followers, Ona shaved off the Garibaldi beard that had been the emblem of his arcadian struggle. Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024 This small town lies within the largest stand of ponderosa pine forests in the U.S., which is dotted with lakes and creeks, providing an arcadian backdrop to your stay. Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2024 Over the next few decades, back to the soil, ski bum, and jam band dreams flourished in these arcadian corners. Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023 Until recently, the Falkland Islands were a quasi-feudal colony, in which an arcadian Britain of the past was preserved in microcosm—a population of eighteen hundred, territory a little larger than Jamaica. Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020 With hilltop farms in trouble, Potter’s wondrous arcadian refuge is increasingly a battleground for tourism, but what form of tourism is the question. Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018 The formal precision in these pictures can be eye-popping, and the compositional symmetry and the positioning of the figures in arcadian settings evoke Mannerist, and, at other times, Pre-Raphaelite qualities. Philip Gefter, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2017

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“Arcadian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arcadian. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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