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poetic

[poh-et-ik] / poʊˈɛt ɪk /


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It would be a poetic way to bow out, whether the title is won or not.

From BBC • May 18, 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

I’ve been in a fight with my husband about free verse versus poetic form.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Dante Alighieri's Inferno may contain more than religious symbolism and poetic imagination.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

What could be so difficult about dressing up in fine clothing and saying witty and poetic things already written out for you?

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood




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