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Recent Examples of georgic
Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
Adjective
And so the community would persist, a tableau of georgic calm sealed inside the bottle of a company town.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for georgic
Adjective
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Echoing its 12th century roots, San Pietro offers an opportunity for quiet reflections and spa services in a bucolic setting.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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Every one of the 40 rooms and suites overlooks the bucolic grounds, some with grassy terraces.—
Kasia Dietz,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Jan. 2025
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The English pastoral meets its match, not in the city but in the imagination that decides not to pursue the trees for the forest of the moment.—
Kevin Young,
The New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2024
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Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The world’s largest agricultural importer also bought a record amount of soybeans last year, after buyers concerned about US-China trade tensions rushed to secure US soybeans ahead of incoming US president Donald Trump’s inauguration.—
Reuters,
CNN,
13 Jan. 2025
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Trump is correct about California’s moronic policy that wastes vast amounts of water and starves its agricultural areas for no good reason.—
The Editors,
National Review,
13 Jan. 2025
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The sleek, contemporary design harmonizes effortlessly with natural materials and warm details, a nod to the region’s agrarian roots.—
Noel Burgess,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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In the nineteenth century, a schism between the industrial North and the agrarian, slaveholding South culminated in the Civil War.—
Michael Beckley,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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Tell, yell, hell, hello, elegy, tottle, otology, geology, theology.—
John McPhee,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Worm’s visualization of his collection, then, is an unwitting elegy of species pushed to the brink of existence by human pressures.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Across Africa, aridity has led to a 12% plunge in GDP, partly driven by degradation of arable land.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
10 Dec. 2024
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One study predicted that replacing arable land with Miscanthus × giganteus plantations could sequester between two and three metric tons of carbon per hectare every year in the plants’ underground roots.—
Juergen Eckhardt,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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Lai Rai, a sleek new bar on Forsyth, is an ode to two of life’s greatest pleasures—natural wine and frozen confections.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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While jewelry today isn’t hardly as intricate, this exhibition is an ode to craftsmanship and creativity.—
Nadja Sayej,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.—
Adriana Lee,
WWD,
26 Nov. 2024
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And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?—
Constance Grady,
Vox,
20 Nov. 2024
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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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