poetic
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It would be a poetic way to bow out, whether the title is won or not.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Dante Alighieri's Inferno may contain more than religious symbolism and poetic imagination.
From Science Daily • May 11, 2026
I couldn’t go to a comedy club and wax poetic about sadness — some kinds of sadness you can do that with but the death of a child is such a specific and profound taboo.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
With each instructive and poetic chapter, she shows us how time used to be measured by birdsong and flower bud, the color of twilight and the wide wheel of stars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
I loved the dance, and particularly enjoyed learning the lyrics, because they were poetic and it improved my vocabulary.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
Vocabulary lists containing poetic
English Words Derived from French, List 1
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