sylvan
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If it weren’t for the long-ago gift of some 3,000 gorgeous sylvan acres from a cranky jailbird with a civic conscience and a large and very taxable real estate portfolio, we wouldn’t have Griffith Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Because you do not go to an airport to shop, dine or wander through a sylvan landscape, that’s why.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
The movie is romantic slapstick, set far from the bohemian Lower East Side in sylvan Vermont.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
While it’s hard today to imagine the Baileys’ Adams Morgan home as a sylvan retreat, apparently it was.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022
Ihe sylvan fields, forests, and shores had been mowed down, paved over, and built up with roads, bridges, hospitals, boatyards, jails, and military bases, cities in and of themselves.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Hidden Figures
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
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