bucolic
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FAIRFORD, England—For the past 80 years, locals in this bucolic English village have grown used to the sounds of American and British warplanes taking off from a nearby military base.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
"I voted to leave the United Kingdom," 76-year-old Piddington resident Herbert Owen, told AFP during the vote, saying it felt like the government did not "care" about the bucolic village in the Oxfordshire countryside.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Now she breeds her own yaks on 120 acres of pasture, foothills and mesa tops high in bucolic Ridgway, about 290 miles west of Denver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The show depicts the power struggles between patriarch John Dutton III, his children, the locals, and the outsiders seeking to change their bucolic ranching way of life.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
In their wake fell a strange and bucolic calm, as if it were just another summer day, and nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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