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bucolic

[byoo-kol-ik] / byuˈkɒl ɪk /
ADJECTIVE
rural or rustic
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Before it had just been one big, bouncy blue and orange Macy’s balloon, streetwise New York City behaving like some bucolic basketball Mayberry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Jo is thinking warm, bucolic thoughts as she observes the ragtag procession.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

The memorial thereby manages to combine formality—in tribute to Hunt’s classicism—with serenity, in acknowledgment of its bucolic setting in an urban oasis.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Al-Qadri, 81, had seen the bucolic mountains here turn into a battlefield since Israel’s creation in 1948.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Even in the bucolic surroundings of Columbia, Seabiscuit could not escape the carnival atmosphere.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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