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noun

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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
  • In an effort to pay respect to its bucolic surroundings, the building operates on renewable energy with a geothermal system and over 4,100 solar panels.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Five years on, Ellie has settled in a seemingly bucolic commune in Jackson, Wyoming, although a world-shattering lie about her past is about to catch up with her.
    Zing Tsjeng, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This is rock and roll as pastoral.
    Mitch Therieau, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Elsewhere, Abercrombie’s pastorals are almost like burlesques of plein air painting.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The center, which is the home of the National Western Sock Show, has been under redevelopment since 2019 as the city and several partners expand the facility into a year-round exhibition, agricultural education and entertainment campus.
    Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The local government and group representatives believe the move would put Wyandotte County at the epicenter of agricultural education and events and bring millions in revenue annually.
    Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The descendants of those celebrations, listed below in chronological order for the year, honor agrarian histories and promote unique regional foods, with pop concerts, giant anthropomorphic vegetables, and eating contests.
    Naomi Tomky, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025
  • At the turn of the 20th century, America experienced social disruption, the result of a shift from a rural agrarian economy to an urban industrial economy.
    Dennis M. Powell, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Eephus is an elegy, but with just the barest hint of sentimentality—a shrugging send-off that simultaneously cares deeply about America’s pastime.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Lachlan Murdoch delivered a brief elegy this morning for shuttered sports streaming joint venture Venu but said Fox is moving ahead with plans to launch a new direct-to-consumer service drawing on all its content and brands by the end of the calendar year.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Boosting agriculture Angola imports over half of its food and currently only 10% of arable land is cultivated.
    Tom Page, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Brazil has immense amounts of arable and potentially arable land, much of which, in today’s environmentally conscious world, will thankfully come from the conversion of sub-par pastureland rather than the destruction of rainforest.
    Sal Gilbertie, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Regardless if they’re officially deemed Masters collections or not, golf brands and fans are well aware that anything floral and/or pink, green and yellow is an ode to professional golf’s first major and the unofficial start to the amateur golf season.
    Michael LoRé, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Because this clever, funny play is both an attentive ode to Greenspan’s extraordinary artistry as a playwright-performer and an unsparing meditation on the psychic and financial precariousness of playwriting as a creative life.
    Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Read: Let our critic guide you through the power and paradox of an old-school sonnet.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • 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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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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