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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
  • Teacup takes place in a bucolic rural setting of green farmland and picturesque forest.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The business of television during the heady Thatcherite ’80s feels fundamentally at odds with the bucolic Cotswolds setting—an aesthetic clash of giant cellphones and gentle pastures, boardroom meetings and stray sheep.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • For those who make the trek, the week will be filled with events ranging from the pastoral to the glamourous to the overtly highbrow.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 25 July 2024
Adjective
  • The marijuana legalization initiative is also drawing considerable attention in the state, which has a large agricultural sector and a thriving medical marijuana market.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Trees are a crucial aspect of the agricultural practices of farmers in the High Atlas region.
    Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Their routines have long endured on the fringes of their worlds, with Nina driving back and forth from her plain, modern life and the wilds of the mountain villages and Walter’s sometimes agrarian, sometimes intellectual upbringing.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The fundamental factors that drove Bangladesh’s evolution from a low-income, agrarian economy to a thriving industrial and digital powerhouse are still intact.
    Sylvana Quader Sinha, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Working with longtime collaborators John Collins and Nicolas Bragg, the funk-rock elegies and New Romantic jaunts turn brittle and deliberate.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • The country itself is the fourth wealthiest in the EU, with a GDP per capita of $52,000 (€48,000) and the CIA World Factbook lists its natural resources as petroleum, natural gas, fish, arable land, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Low-lying cities such as Samarkand and Tashkent, which have the arable land and irrigation necessary to support their bustling populations, are seen as having been the real destinations for trade.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In his new book of poems, Quesada seamlessly blends intimate confessions with odes to surreal paintings.
    James Factora, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Fittingly, his outfit was an ode to a jab from one of his wife's costars.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • People who spend the day after a date writing sonnets in their Notes app.
    Olivia Petter, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
  • According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.
    David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024

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“Georgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/georgic. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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