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Recent Examples of paradisiacal
And if these virtual recreations of stellar self-destruction are windows into the very distant past, then that might also mean our own waterlogged, paradisiacal world is just one in a considerably long line of oceanic planets.
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Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
James and Ceretti are seen in tiny white swimsuits and kissing on a raft, against a paradisiacal background.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 16 May 2025
Pope Francis repeatedly pressed forward his sacred quest to annihilate atomic weapons, and to restore the paradisiacal era imagined in Genesis, before humans invented arms.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Her argument is often contradictory and impulsive, working backward from a paradisiacal climax, leapfrogging over almost every practical concern—and plenty of ethical ones too.
—Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
James and Ceretti are seen in tiny white swimsuits and kissing on a raft, against a paradisiacal background.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 16 May 2025
Pope Francis repeatedly pressed forward his sacred quest to annihilate atomic weapons, and to restore the paradisiacal era imagined in Genesis, before humans invented arms.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Her argument is often contradictory and impulsive, working backward from a paradisiacal climax, leapfrogging over almost every practical concern—and plenty of ethical ones too.
—Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paradisiacal
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While many who have seen Pluribus — Apple TV‘s biggest series to date — are clamoring for what’s next in the chilling utopian saga (especially after that explosive Season 1 ending), creator Vince Gilligan is tempering expectations on the release timeline for Season 2.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
7 Feb. 2026
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There were participants in our cohort who remained rightfully critical of our utopian aims, our spectrum of privilege, and our position as cultural workers living through global extinction, famine, corruption, and violence in all its forms.—
Catherine Taft,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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His first albums under his own name, 1995’s Earth & Nightfall and 1996’s cult classic Ten Days of Blue, were blissful-sounding ambient techno records that took the melodic sensibilities of the local scene to their cosmic extremes.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
13 Feb. 2026
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Ashur awakes in this alternative timeline, but not all is blissful.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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That sincere belief in the serenity of golfing is affirmed by the beatific animation.—
Kambole Campbell,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2025
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His eyes were limpid, faraway, flooded with tears, his gaze beatific.—
Helen Molesworth,
Artforum,
1 Dec. 2025
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This research acts like a cosmic linguist, analyzing subtle spectral signatures to give us unprecedented insight into how these powerful, yet often hidden, forces influence star birth, sculpt galactic gas and orchestrate the evolution of galaxies.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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Human beings—predictors of eclipses, theorists of cosmic heat death—may no longer be the best guides to the future.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Paradisiacal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paradisiacal. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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