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idylls

noun

variants also idyls

plural of idyll

as in sprees

a time or instance of carefree fun her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be

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Recent Examples of idylls If powder-white beaches, turquoise waters, and lush jungles are at the top of your travel itinerary, the following 11 idylls are must-gos, where nature is at its most relaxed and pleasurable. — Skyli Alvarez, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2026 But while Provo has become developed, its neighbors, Parrish assured me, remain timeless idylls, their empty interiors encircled by endless beaches fringed with casuarina trees. — Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026 But that sequence of prose idylls was the core of the collection. — Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025 The 70-year-old star has always swung for the fences — often literally, in pastoral baseball idylls like Bull Durham and Field of Dreams — with bold, risky choices. — Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025

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Anthropic, Meta and Google have since reported similar autonomous hacking sprees.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 14 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, every day, SNAP theft sprees keep popping up in new corners of the country.

— Eli Hager, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of sprees

Noun

Birds, including Canadian geese, several types of hawks, mynas and larks were also killed in the thousands.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
That includes a bird-calling scene that sees the duo strolling through the forest and offering up their own spin on the calls of thrushes and larks.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 June 2026

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On the west coast, Gros and Petit Piton (Saint Lucia’s iconic volcanoes) rise from beneath the gin-clear sea to shelter the curvaceous coves at Anse Chastanet and Jalousie Beach, which inspire From Here To Eternity-style romps on the shore.

— Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026
Spring break isn’t just for partying college kids and family theme-park romps.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026

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