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sylvan

[sil-vuhn] / ˈsɪl vən /
ADJECTIVE
woodsy
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It has been with him all his life, and it is a conductor’s opera — complex, fleeting, sylvan, changeable, tender and tough.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

The sylvan property set on a 2,600-acre nature preserve has been hosting the tribute since 1988, a year after the movie’s release.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022

The movie is romantic slapstick, set far from the bohemian Lower East Side in sylvan Vermont.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022

According to the DSM-5, my trauma originated in learning about Jason’s trauma; it arose in that moment when I stepped off the veranda beside that sylvan lake and checked my email.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022

The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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