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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
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The 37-room masseria, which sits atop a bucolic hillside facing the Adriatic Sea, was once owned by the Marquis Palmieri of Monopoli, a 16th-century noble landowner who is best remembered for participating in the Crusades to the Holy Land.—
Aileen Weintraub,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 July 2025
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The pairing of aperitifs and canapés, accompanied by views of the bucolic countryside and herb garden in the backyard, feels transportative.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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His voice is the ghost in the machine, a strangely humane presence amid all the urban-industrial pastoral.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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This is rock and roll as pastoral.—
Mitch Therieau,
The New Yorker,
27 Dec. 2024
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The event also will pay tribute to the state's agricultural diversity, which is second only to California, organizers said.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
25 July 2025
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Due to industrial sugar cane and pineapple mono-cropping, and a historic lack of Indigenous agricultural autonomy, our once plentiful endemic plants are now under threat.—
D. Kauwila Mahi,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
24 July 2025
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The group trains in Livermore at Basso’s Arena, tucked within the Tri-Valley’s rolling hills, where the agrarian lifestyle barely escapes the hustle and bustle of highway traffic and dense, multi-story buildings.—
Kyle Martin,
Mercury News,
12 July 2025
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The natural disaster effectively wiped out thousands of years of human economic development, turning us back into an agrarian society overnight.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
1 July 2025
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Vo’s ongoing examination of empire and identity unfolds here as both monument and elegy.—
Nel-Olivia Waga,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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What if Durham’s vision for the sequel could be turned inside out, undergoing a transformation like The Greatest from retrospective to comeback, elegy to unfinished story.—
Melina Moe
May 19,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2025
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At both spatial scales, forested landscapes had the highest share of deciduous forests and the greatest connectivity of forest patches, hedgerows, and large groups of trees, whereas non-forested landscapes had a relatively large proportion of arable lands and the greatest vineyard-forest distances.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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News accounts of fires, floods, erupting volcanoes, plagues, the loss of arable land, and mass extinctions evoke a planet in collapse.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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This whiskey is an ode to American travel and industry.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The restaurant is chef Nicolas Min Jørgensen’s ode to regional flavors achieved by expert sourcing and a palpable love for the area.—
Liz Provencher,
Travel + Leisure,
12 July 2025
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Almost too passionately anguished, Austen is a sonnet played on the fortepiano, while Winslet is Liszt banged out on a Steinway.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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