sylvan
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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 glade romanticism of “Emeralds,” the electric energy of “Rubies,” the glittering imperial court of “Diamonds.”
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2023
Are you up for another sylvan frolic, courtesy of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine?
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023
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
Ihe sylvan fields, forests, and shores had been mowed down, paved over, and built up with roads, bridges, hospitals, boatyards, jails, and military bases, cities in and of themselves.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Vocabulary lists containing sylvan
Hidden Figures
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The Waste Land
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
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