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bucolic

[byoo-kol-ik] / byuˈkɒl ɪk /
ADJECTIVE
rural or rustic
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I grew up in Pittsfield, Mass., a bucolic, General Electric factory city.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Her listing appeared to show a pristine, albeit A.I.-generated, house with smooth textures, clean walls and windows, a nice green lawn, and a bench out front under bucolic lighting.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

Within a few days, I escalated to blowing leaves out from under the shrubs, and remembered the bucolic autumns of my Midwestern childhood and jumping into leaf piles raked patiently by my grandfather.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

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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