poetic
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It is lost on me how he could square those poetic words with the decision he endorses in Callais.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2026
I couldn’t go to a comedy club and wax poetic about sadness — some kinds of sadness you can do that with but the death of a child is such a specific and profound taboo.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
The books are episodic, composed of scenes that function like poetic stanzas that are linked as much by ideas and motifs as by narrative progression.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
On The WhatsApp Shakspeare, she warns listeners of a "wolf in sheep's clothes, but in this case denim", whose poetic voice notes win her heart, until she discovers she's "one of seven other leading ladies".
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
It was seriously like five lines, but it was grammatically correct and strangely poetic, and just completely different from anything I’d ever read before.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
Vocabulary lists containing poetic
English Words Derived from French, List 1
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Poetry
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Writing - Middle School
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