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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
  • He is also formed by his studies at Catholic Theological Union, a seminary for priests from religious communities conceived in a new mode after Vatican II; one that did not isolate seminarians from the realities of the world in some far-off bucolic location.
    Mark R. Francis, Time, 10 May 2025
  • As for the bucolic scenes: for all their technical prowess, those were actually rooted in the digital Stone Age.
    Vogue, Vogue, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This is rock and roll as pastoral.
    Mitch Therieau, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Among the companies charting this alternative path is Organic India, a wellness brand that has woven regenerative organic agricultural practices into its DNA long before the term became a mainstream badge of sustainability.
    Christopher Marquis, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Their statements assume that the new rules would bar killing of coyotes without evidence of property or agricultural damage.
    Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Just beyond the epic Castle Howard in rural North Yorkshire, about 200 miles north of London, stands the Silos, another architectural marvel that is a modern homage to the area’s agrarian past.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 May 2025
  • The film makes more than a token effort to explore the material and psychological realities of life under fascist rule, and the transformation of a charming agrarian utopia into an austere military dictatorship.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • It’s remained in the company’s repertoire for decades, and the use of Coltrane’s elegy for the love of her life has made that music into two dirges, one for husband John Coltrane and another for the woman on the invisible mourner’s bench honoring and channeling him for the rest of her days.
    Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Lucas’s final film is a kind of elegy for an entire style of personal blockbuster filmmaking, Williams’ funeral music in the last moments fitting for the director’s last moments behind the camera.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The country has huge gold reserves and the second-largest amount of arable land in Africa, and both domestic and foreign interests are struggling for control of these resources.
    Mai Hassan, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Most importantly, Colombia’s culinary scene is an ode to the resilience and strength of our people.
    Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 15 May 2025
  • Marina’s Tapas, which opened in early December 2024, is an ode to Kaifer’s Spanish great-grandmother.
    Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Her poems of that era — sonnets, epigrams, eminently quotable snippets of rhymed gossip — pulse with the dynamism and attitude of the modern city.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The title is borrowed from Elizabeth Alexander’s fourth collection persona poems, historical narratives, jazz riffs, sonnets, elegies, and a sequence of ars poetica which examines the Black experience through the lens of the slave rebellion on the Amistad and nineteenth-century American art.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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