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
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Bring a picnic, and the fam, as the Echo Theater Co. a stripped-down, kid-friendly 40-minute version of Shakespeare’s sylvan fantasy.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2022
Temporary departures from the sylvan landscape for professional activities are prohibited, but the place has been known to have a hold on people.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022
According to the DSM-5, my trauma originated in learning about Jason’s trauma; it arose in that moment when I stepped off the veranda beside that sylvan lake and checked my email.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022
The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing sylvan
Hidden Figures
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The Waste Land
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
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