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as in beatific
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as in cherubic
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Recent Examples of angelic
In Waves takes audiophiles through angelic soundscapes, club-ready tracks, joyful beats, driving bass, hypnotic toplines and more.
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Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Even the actors got in on the night's theme, with Depp wearing angelic silver gown while the rest of the cast wearing all black or dark brown.
—Lawrence Yee, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
The Pink Bear plays a supporting role in the portraits, representing some sort of angelic guardian figure, and the portraits ignite a conversation about mental health.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Bridging the hoedown and the ballroom, Beyoncé alternates between angelic croons and fierce commands over a thumping bassline and a springy acoustic guitar.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Even the actors got in on the night's theme, with Depp wearing angelic silver gown while the rest of the cast wearing all black or dark brown.
—Lawrence Yee, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
The Pink Bear plays a supporting role in the portraits, representing some sort of angelic guardian figure, and the portraits ignite a conversation about mental health.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Bridging the hoedown and the ballroom, Beyoncé alternates between angelic croons and fierce commands over a thumping bassline and a springy acoustic guitar.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for angelic
Adjective
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The various characters who arrived out of the city’s nooks and crannies late in the performance’s run were the flip side of the beatific images of ordinary people in tears.—
John Ganz,
Harper's Magazine,
14 Mar. 2010
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Some — such as Thomas Hauser — have felt that Ali’s circle tried too hard to soften the boxer’s once-firebrand image and transform him into a beatific, near-saintly epitome.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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The weight of all this is only so heavy, though, because of how thoroughly The Agency built the bond between Samia and Martian, and how plainly it’s presented love as an act of blissful self-destruction.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2025
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Beach Waves Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, December 2004 Barefoot and blissful, Crawford's laissez-faire loose waves complement her casual beachside wedding.—
Calin Van Paris,
Vogue,
26 Dec. 2024
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While there are countless superhero stories flooding the TV landscape, Emma Moran's Extraordinary soars with its down-to-earth, Boys-esque twist, where being a hero isn't all it's cracked up to be and unworldly abilities aren't just devices for destruction.—
Alex Galbraith,
EW.com,
24 Sep. 2024
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Buruma, who excels at setting a rather unworldly man in the public life of his time, describes how, in 1672, a mob in The Hague lynched Johan and Cornelis de Witt, brothers who had led the Netherlands’ liberal regime during what is now remembered as the Dutch Golden Age.—
Adam Kirsch,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2024
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Boston: Image Image When much of downtown Boston burned a year after Chicago, property owners upgraded in a kind of virtuous cycle, erecting sounder and taller buildings and incentivizing their neighbors to do the same.—
Emily Badger,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Other countries will be forced to follow suit and hence create a price action virtuous cycle.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The two embark on a dangerous and transcendent journey down the Mississippi River.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
22 Dec. 2024
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The only unanimous inductee in the history of Hall of Fame voting isn’t a charismatic and transcendent star center fielder like Ken Griffey Jr. or a durable, generation-spanning rotation presence like Nolan Ryan.—
Andrew Baggarly,
The Athletic,
21 Nov. 2024
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The tone of the series is, more than anything else, comforting, at a time when trans people and their allies could certainly use some moral affirmation—not to mention emotional validation.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
6 Feb. 2025
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In the weeks before the election, former President Barack Obama gave moral sermons and philosophical treatises on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign, his speeches suggesting that politics still existed in a social atmosphere of contemplation and debate.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
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His first two tasks of the day: 20 minutes of transcendental meditation ... followed by four shots of espresso.—
Axios,
Axios,
17 Jan. 2025
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In addition to his hobbies of painting and photography, Lynch was also a big figure in the world of transcendental meditation, introducing other celebrities to the practice and establishing the David Lynch Foundation in 2005 to promote it.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
16 Jan. 2025
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Your celestial ruler, Mercury, will also clash with rebellious Uranus on Feb. 10 — expect an unexpected message or a sudden revelation.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
1 Feb. 2025
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The two images — which the company posted Monday on the social media platform X — features a view of the moon from the top deck of the 6.6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) lunar lander as well as a snapshot of the celestial orb on its own.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Angelic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angelic. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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