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Recent Examples of georgic
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
  • Life at The Sea Ranch is predictably bucolic, frequently focused on divertissements for the couple’s young children, Miles and Juliet.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The traditional media business has been staring at these multiple roads for years now, and none of them are anywhere near as bucolic as Frost’s woods.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • During the 1960s, USAID played a crucial role in the Green Revolution, considerably increasing agricultural productivity in developing countries.
    A.J. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 17 Feb. 2025
  • That study was funded by an agricultural research firm in Hong Kong that did not have a vested interest in the outcome, the study’s lead author said.
    Alice Callahan, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • His dollies through agrarian acres are not meant to drum up suspense.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Climatic volatility, agricultural uncertainty, and the formation, consolidation and breakdown of preindustrial agrarian states Sumerian Literature.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But the meeting will be more elegy than transformation.
    Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Tell, yell, hell, hello, elegy, tottle, otology, geology, theology.
    John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • When these holes are not filled back in, the quality of previously arable land diminishes.
    Zinhle Essamuah, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Looking to the future With the global population growing and arable land shrinking, vertical farming offers a promising solution to future food security challenges.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • More than the story of an icon, the musical is an ode to the sacrifices made while chasing down big dreams.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Related Articles With undulating walls that resemble stage curtains and a rooftop garden, the architectural marvel is meant to be an ode to the love of oneself, love of others, and love of nature, according to the organizer.
    Denni Hu, WWD, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 Feb. 2025.

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