a being having superhuman powers and control over a particular part of life or the world
in some belief systems, natural forces like the wind and the sea were gods
a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion
in the eyes of many film critics, Alfred Hitchcock is one of the undisputed gods of cinema
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Recent Examples of godThe Cambodian team knelt in reverence as the Hindu god Vishnu was uncrated.—
Anderson Cooper,
CBS News,
28 June 2026 Here in Tamil Nadu, reality was—still is—perceived to reside not in the physical world but in the relationship between that world and the transcendent realm of Siva and Vishnu, two great gods of the Tamil country.—
Chandrahas Choudhury,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 July 2026 Andrew Raftery Two forceful exhibitions have shown how Indian artists and presses met the cultural upheaval of the nineteenth century with lithographic prints that rendered Hindu gods more approachable and helped to galvanize national identity.—The New York Review of Books,
4 July 2026 Ginori 1735 x The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection The easiest way to spot the Ginori takeover aboard The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s Evrima is to look for Luke Edward Hall’s colorful sea gods.—
Melinda Sheckells,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for god
The animals were also chosen as vehicles for deities during processions because of their height.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
3 July 2026
Evidence of this lies in the very names of the planets, which represented ancient deities, and of the five bright planets, the one whose color appeared to come closest to that of blood was called Mars in honor of the god of war.
Even Ethan Almighty has been affected by the generosity of Supplies Over Seas.
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Kirby Adams,
The Courier-Journal,
7 Aug. 2025
By the time Laras is making like Linda Blair, malicious jinn power resisting that of Almighty Allah, the film has already gone down a familiar path of grotesque makeup, stunts and digital FX.
Soldier Valley Spirits' objective is to support military heroes and their families, Greenwood said.
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Teresa Mull,
FOXNews.com,
2 July 2026
Shakespeare’s haughty Roman war hero, revered on the battlefield yet reviled by hungry plebeians, becomes the flash point in a young democracy tearing itself apart over power and sacrifice.
The first — Nietzsche’s 1881 Eternal Recurrence — is a life test by design, echoing Camus’ Sisyphus.
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Shai Tubali,
Big Think,
5 Aug. 2025
Some cultures, Eliade shows, preserve their eternals by simply denying the force of history; in Lyell’s case, the culture at hand was Christianity, and the ideal was the unique status of humankind.
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