poetic
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That it’s a woman who ultimately neutralizes Homelander shielding is a kind of poetic justice.
From Salon • May 24, 2026
It would be a poetic way to bow out, whether the title is won or not.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
When his character contacts Léa Seydoux’s French plant expert, it becomes almost too much rapturously intelligent star wattage for one quietly poetic movie, even if these god-tier actors are just zooming and talking shop.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
It’s a chronicle of race history in the late 19th and 20th centuries, with all the unpleasantness, and yet it is an act of poetic aspiration, resignation and bravura aesthetics.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Her words were met with a poetic snore.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing poetic
English Words Derived from French, List 1
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