Example Sentences

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The report was visionary, bold, even brilliant, and it’s as close as we got to a modern Edenic L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

As the world entered the tumultuous ’30s—a decade of avid modernism, economic upheaval and creeping fascism—the autochrome aesthetic was suddenly too rose-colored, its saturated light too Edenic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

It goes something like this: A small Edenic community is under threat and unable to save itself.

From Salon • May 26, 2025

Fiercely devoted to her mother, she is imprinted with the immutable desire to survive and somehow, some way, return to her Edenic home.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2024

To ecologists, the great tropical forest in South America was and is the planet’s greatest wilderness, primeval and ancient, an Edenic zone touched by humankind lightly if at all.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann