idyll
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When Adam Dunlop and his young family built their dream family home in the Northern Irish countryside, they never imagined that the fields around their idyll would become an illegal dumping ground for dead animals.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 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
Maintaining this pleasant emptiness is no easy task, as ghosts of Charles’s past slowly begin to invade his idyll.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 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
Vocabulary lists containing idyll
Poetry: Genres
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - High School
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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