idyll
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Although summer is celebrated as a lazy idyll, it also summons an impulse toward tests of brain and brawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Many say the idyll began to unravel when New Delhi appointed civil servant Jayanti Ravi to head Auroville in 2021.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
In what has all the hallmarks of a staged "scoop", this week's front page carries photographs of the couple taken recently on holiday in Corsica with the headline "The idyll that no-one expected."
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
We did not, after all, save the idyll.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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Poetry: Genres
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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